Music Tracking 2025

These are 2025 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range). Lines in blue indicate that I have a physical copy (albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in green are records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other such source. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note.

Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5). The priotization is based subjectively on personal interests, reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to ASAP.

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New Releases

  • 2hollis: Star (Interscope) [04-04] - experimental hip-hop [**]
  • 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band: Interaction (Anzic) - jazz
  • 3rd Force: Lifeforce () [06-27] - smooth jazz
  • 10toeflex: En Habitant Avec Des Fantômes (-EP) [02-13]
  • 38 Special: Milestone () [09-19]
  • 54 Ultra: First Works () [ 05-30]
  • 100%WET: 100%WET (Crunchy Frog) [05-16]
  • Σtella: Adagio (Sub Pop)
  • $ilkMoney: Who Waters the Wilting Giving Tree Once the Leaves Dry Up and Fruits No Longer Bear? (Lex/DB$B) [07-18] - hip-hop [***]
  • Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet: Sound Remains (Whirlwind) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Abbatia: Phantasma! In the Ends of the Loom () [03-21] - hip-hop
  • Abduction: Existentialismus (Spinefarm) [02-21] - metal
  • Kevin Abstract: Blush (X8/Juno) [06-27] - hip-hop
  • Chantal Acda: The Whale (Starman) [09-19] - vocal jazz
  • The Aces: Gold Star Baby (self-released) [08-15] - dance-pop
  • Acid Magus: Scatterling Empire () [02-21] - metal
  • Action Figures of Speech: Action Figures of Speech () [02-15] - hip-hop
  • Actress: Grey Interiors (Smalltown Supersound -EP) [02-07] - ambient
  • Kris Adams/Peter Perfido: Away (Jazzbird) [05-01] - jazz [*]
  • Steve Adams/Lisa Mezzacappa/Jason Levis: Never but Dream the Days (Queen Bee) - jazz
  • Addison Rae: Addison (As Long as I'm Dancing/Columbia) [06-06] - alt-pop [*]
  • Phil Adé: Philip () [10-01] - hip-hop
  • Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz (Sub Pop) [04-18] [**]
  • Adéla: The Provocateur (Capitol -EP) [08-22] - electropop
  • Florence Adooni: A.O.E.I.U. [An Ordinary Exercise in Unity] () [02-28] - highlife
  • Adore: Biter (Big Scary Monsters -EP) [09-26]
  • Adult Mom: Natural Causes (Epitaph) [05-09] [**]
  • Adwaith: Solas (Libertino) [02-07] - dream pop
  • Aesop Rock: Black Hole Superette (Rhymesayers) [05-30] - hip-hop [***]
  • Affinity Trio [Eric Jacobson/Pamela York/Clay Schaub]: New Outlook (Origin) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • AFI: Silver Bleeds the Black Sun (Run for Cover) [10-03] - gothic rock
  • Africa Express: Africa Express Presents . . . Bahidorá (World Circuit) [07-18] - African [*]
  • Afternoon Bike Ride: Running With Scissors (Friends of Friends) [09-19]
  • Nils Agnas: Köper Sig Ur En Kris (Moserobie) [03-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Sophie Agnel & John Butcher: Rare (Les Disques Victo) [01-31] - jazz [**]
  • Sophie Agnel: Song (Relative Pitch) [03-28] - jazz [*]
  • Agriculture: The Spiritual Sound (The Flenser) [10-03] - blackgaze
  • Yazz Ahmed: A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) [02-28] - jazz [B]
  • Marja Ahti: Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth (Fönstret) [09-12] - jazz [*]
  • Air Drawn Dagger: A Guide for Apparitions (Long Branch) [04-04]
  • Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Pheeroan akLaff/Scott Robinson/Julian Thayer: aRT (ScienSonic) - jazz
  • Pheeroan akLaff/Scott Robinson/Julian Thayer: aRT: Live at Kampo Bahal Gallery (Sciensonic -EP) [06-09] - jazz [*]
  • Sam Akpro: Evenfall (Anti-) [03-28]
  • Albare: Eclecticity (Alfi) [05-02] - jazz [*]
  • Albita & Chucho Valdés: Masters of Our Roots (InnerCat Entertainment) [05-23] - jazz
  • Alchemy Sound Project/Sumi Tonooka: Under the Surface (ARC) [06-27] - jazz [***]
  • Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet: El Muki (Saponegro) [08-15] - jazz [***]
  • Aleph Quintet: Hiwar (Igloo) [04-18] - jazz
  • Eric Alexander: Chicago to New York (Cellar Music Group) [04-04] - jazz [***]
  • Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring: Split Decision (Smoke Sessions) - jazz [**]
  • Olly Alexander: Polari (Polydor) [02-07] - synthpop
  • Alfa Mist/44th Move/Richard Spaven: Anthem (Black Acre) [03-14] - jazz
  • Alfa Mist: Roulette (Sekito) [10-03] - jazz fusion
  • Algernon Cadwallader: Trying Not to Have a Thought (Saddle Creek) [09-12] - math pop
  • Alien Boy: You Wanna Fade? () [05-09] - indie rock
  • Alien Weaponry: Te Rā (Napalm) [03-28] - metal
  • All Seeing Dolls: Parallel (A) [02-21]
  • Steve Allee Big Band: Naptown Sound (Jazzville) [03-15] - jazz [B]
  • Allegaeon: The Ossuary Lens (Metal Blade) [04-04] - metal
  • Carl Allen: Tippin' (Cellar) [01-10] - jazz [***]
  • Harry Allen/Rossano Sportiello/Bryan Carter: It Takes 3 (Night Is Alive) [02-07] - jazz
  • JD Allen: Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) (Savant) [09-26] - jazz [**]
  • Marshall Allen: New Dawn (Mexican Summer) [02-14] - jazz [***]
  • Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons: Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) [05-23] - jazz [***]
  • Allo Darlin': Bright Nights ()
  • David Allred: The Beautiful World (Erased Tapes) [01-24]
  • Alpaca Sports: Another Day (Elefant) [01-17]
  • ALT BLK ERA: Rave Immortal (Earache) [01-24] - drumstep
  • The Altons: Heartache in Room 14 (Daptone) [02-14]
  • Rodrigo Amado/Chris Corsano: The Healing: Live at ZDB (2016, European Echoes) [08-01] - jazz [A-]
  • Amaarae: Black Star (Interscope) [08-08] - dance-pop [A-]
  • Gino Amato: Latin Crossroads 2 (Ovation) [08-13] - jazz [*]
  • Zoh Amba: Sun (Smalltown Supersound) [06-27] - jazz [***]
  • Oren Ambarchi & Eric Thielemans: Kind Regards (AD93) [02-21] - post-rock [**]
  • Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werlin: Ghosted III (Drag City) [08-29] - post-rock [***]
  • Amber Asylum: Ruby Red (Prophecy Productions) [03-07] - chamber music
  • Fabienne Ambuehl: Thrive (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
  • Sam Amidon: Salt River (River Lea) [01-24] - folk
  • Aminé: 13 Months of Sunshine (CLBN/10K Projects) [05-16] - hip-hop
  • Ammar 808: Club Tounsi (Glitterbeat) [05-23] - Arabic
  • Amorphis: Borderland (Reigning Phoenix) [09-26] - prog metal
  • Amplifier: Gargantuan () [03-07] - space rock
  • Amulets: Not Around but Through (Beacon Sound) [02-21] - ambient
  • Fly Anakin: (The) Forever Dream (Lex) [04-25] - hip-hop [*]
  • Ancient Death: Ego Dissolution (Profound Lore) - metal
  • The Ancients [Isaiah Collier/William Hooker/William Parker]: The Ancients (Eremite) [01-31] - jazz [A-]
  • . . . And Oceans: The Regeneration Itinerary (Season of Mist) [05-23] - metal
  • Leon Anderson: Live at Snug Harbor (Outside In Music) [04-04] - jazz
  • André 3000: 7 Piano Sketches (Epic) [05-05]
  • Ester Andujar: Inner Songs (Pentasonic) - jazz
  • Angles 11: Tell Them It's the Sound of Freedom (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
  • Anika: Abyss (Sacred Bones) [04-04] - noise pop [***]
  • Anitek & Tabinstereo: Indigo Immaculate () [01-22] - hip-hop
  • Annahstasia: Tether (Drink Sum Wtr) [06-13] - singer-songwriter
  • Annie & the Caldwells: Can't Lose My (Soul) (Luaka Bop) [03-21] - soul [A-]
  • Antonio Andrade: Here We Go! (Lifeshakes) [03-21]
  • Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band: What Is? (self-released) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Ant: Collection of Sounds Vol. 4 (Rhymesayers) [04-04] - hip-hop
  • Anxious: Bambi (Run for Cover) [02-21] - emo-pop
  • Ichiko Aoba: Luminiscent Creatures (Hermine) [02-28] - new age [*]
  • Apathy: Mom & Dad (Dirty Version/Coalmine) [06-13] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Apocalypse Orchestra: A Plague Upon Thee () [02-14] - metal
  • Benjamin Appl: Lines of Life (Alpha) [02-14] - classical
  • Benjamin Apl & James Baillieu: For Dieter: The Past and the Future (Alpha) [05-23] - lied
  • Årabrot: Rite of Dionysus () [08-29]
  • Aran Angmar: ORdo Diabolilcum () [03-21] - metal
  • Arashi With Takeo Moriyama: Tokuzo (Trost -24) [2024-09-13] - jazz [***]
  • Florian Arbenz/Michael Arbenz/Ron Carter: The Alpine Session: Arbenz Vs. Arbenz Meets Ron Carter (Hammer) [02-21] - jazz [**]
  • Michael Arbenz/Andy Sheppard: From Bach to Ellington: Live (self-released) [06-13] - jazz [**]
  • Arcade Fire: Pink Elephant (Columbia) [05-09] - indie rock [*]
  • Arch Enemy: Blood Dynasty (Century Media) [03-28] - metal
  • Archer: Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic) [04-18] - jazz [A-]
  • Architects: The Sky, the Earth & All Between (Epipath) [02-28] - alt-metal
  • Elia Aregger Trio: Live (Unit) [01-10] - jazz
  • Arid Landscapes: Arid Landscapes (self-released) [09-19] - ambient
  • Arm's Length: There's a Whole World Out There (Pure Noise) [05-16] - emo-pop
  • Eslabón Armado: Vibras De Noche II () [03-14]
  • Sergio Armaroli Quintet: Introducing a Very Heavy Person First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [01-17] - jazz
  • Fred Armisen: 100 Sound Effects (Drag City) [09-26]
  • Joe Armon-Jones: All the Quiet (Part I) (Aquarii) [03-28] - jazz
  • Ólafur Arnalds & Talos: A Dawning (OPIA) [07-11] - ambient pop
  • Elia Aregger Trio: Live (Unit) - jazz [*]
  • Ólöf Arnalds: Spira (Bella Union) [12-05]
  • Arrested Development: Adult Contemporary Hip Hop () [07-04] - hip-hop
  • Art d'Ecco: Serene Demon (Paper Bag) [02-14] - glam rock
  • Artemis: Arboresque (Blue Note) [02-25] - jazz [**]
  • Artificial Go: Musical Chairs () [05-16]
  • Ash: Ad Astra (Fierce Panda) [10-03] - power pop
  • Mulatu Astatke: Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut) [09-26] - ethio-jazz [***]
  • Astropical: Astropical (Universal Music Latino) [03-07] - Latin pop
  • Atmosphere: Jestures (Rhymesayers) [09-19] - hip-hop
  • Viviane Audet: Le Piano Et Le Torrent () [09-29] - classical/jazz
  • Automatic: Is It Now? (Stones Throw) [09-26] - dance-punk
  • Avalanche Party: Der Traum Uber Alles (Kartel Music Group) [02-07]
  • Willow Avalon: Southern Belle Raisin' Hell (Assemble Sound/Atlantic) [01-17] - country [**]
  • Avantasia: Here Be Dragons (Napalm) [02-28] - metal
  • Avatarium: Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead (AFM/Napalm) [01-24] - heavy psych
  • Avery Anna: Let Go Letters () [05-16]
  • Omer Avital: New York Now & Then (Zamzama) [04-08] - jazz [A-]
  • Axios Men's Ensemble/Pro Coro Canada/Michael Zaugg: Benedict Sheehan: Ukrainian War Requiem (Cappella Romana) [02-21]
  • Aya: Hexed! (Hyperdub) [03-28] - electronic [B]
  • Alex "Apolo" Ayala & the Bámbula Project: Afro Puerto Rican Jazz (PMC/Miel Music) [04-04] - jazz
  • Kinan Azmeh and CityBand: Live in Berlin (Dreyer Gaido) [02-28] - jazz
  • Babe Rainbow: Slipper Imp and Shakaerator (P(doom)) [04-04] - psychedelic pop
  • Backxwash: Only Dust Remains (Ugly Hag) [03-28] - hip-hop [***]
  • Bad Bunny: Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas Entertainment) [01-05] - Latin [***]
  • The Bad Seed/Murda Megz: From Us With Love () [02-06] - hip-hop
  • Bad Trips: Nothing but Trouble () [11-17] - experimental noise
  • David Bailis: Running Through My Mind (Create or Destroy) [08-15] - jazz [**]
  • Bakar: Beastie (Forever and Ever -EP) [09-19]
  • Julien Baker & Torres: Send a Prayer My Way (Matador) [04-18] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Tarun Balani: ڪڏهن ملنداسين Kadahin Milandaasin (Berthold) [05-16] - jazz
  • Nicolas Baldeyrou: Mozart: Complete Works for Clarinet Vol. 1 (Alpha) [03-14] - classical
  • Balefire: Balefire (Iron Bonehead -EP) [01-31] - metal
  • Jon Balke: Skrifum (ECM) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Charlie Ballantine: East by Midwest (Origin) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • Bambara: Birthmarks (Wharf Cat/Bella Union) [03-14] - trip hop
  • Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: Cantica Profana (Sunnyside) [09-05] - jazz [A-]
  • Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri: The Athenaeum Concert (Sunnyside) [09-05] - jazz [***]
  • Banks: Off With Her Head (Her Name Is Banks) [02-28] - alt-pop [**]
  • Diego Barber: Scarlatti Sonatas (Sunnyside) [08-22] - jazz
  • Massimo Barbiero & Markus Stockhausen: Stoicheia (self-released) - jazz
  • Barker: Stochastic Drift (Smalltown Supersound) [04-04] - techno [***]
  • The Barlow: High Spirits () [04-25]
  • MC Paul Barman: Tectonic Texts (Househusband) [03-25] - hip-hop [***]
  • Barrens: Corpse Lights (Pelagic) [09-12] - post-metal
  • Barry Can't Swim: Loner (Ninja Tune) [07-11] - downtempo [***]
  • Léna Bartels: The Brighest Silver Fish (Glamour Gowns) [09-12]
  • Gary Bartz & NTU: The Eternal Tenure of Sound: Damage Control (OYO) [09-26] - jazz [*]
  • Basic: Dream City (No Quarter -EP) [03-07] - fusion [*]
  • Al Basile: Blues in Hand (Sweetspot) [10-09] - blues
  • Dave Bass Trio: Trio Nuevo Vol 1 (Dave Bass Music) - jazz
  • Baths: Gut (Basement's Basement) [02-21] - indietronica [B]
  • Jon Batiste: Big Money (Verve/Interscope) [08-22] - vocal jazz [A-]
  • BBC Concert Orchestra/John Andrews: Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works ( Resonus) [03-28] - classical
  • BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena/James Ehnes: Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole; Saint-Saéns: Violen Concerto No. 3; Sarasate: Concert Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen (Chandos) [03-07] - concerto
  • BbyMutha: Left4Dead: The Triplets () [04-25]
  • BC Camplight: A Sober Conversation (Bella Union) [06-27] - art pop
  • Bdrmm: Microtonic (Rock Action) [02-28] - indietronica [***]
  • Beach Bunny: Tunnel Vision (AWAL) [04-25] - power pop [**]
  • The Beaches: No Hard Feelings (AWAL) [08-29] - pop rock
  • Beat: Beat Live () [09-26]
  • Beauty Saloon: BS ()
  • BED: Everything Hurts (Bretford) [05-23]
  • Beddy Rays: Do What Ya Wanna (self-released) [04-18]
  • Bedridden: Moths Strapped to Each Other's Backs () [04-11]
  • Bee Hive Ski Race: Unlimited Violence Apologia (self-released) [01-03] - post-rock
  • Behemoth: The Shit ov God (Nuclear Blast) [05-09] - metal
  • Beirut: A Study of Losses (Pompeii) [04-18] - chamber folk
  • Beiggja: Morning (Hubro) - jazz
  • Sonya Belaya: Dacha (Ropeadope) [10-10] - jazz
  • Kasan Belgrave: Dual Citizen (self-released) - jazz
  • Believe [Peter Farrar/Novak Manojlovic/Clayton Thomas/Laurence Pike]: Spriits of the Dead Are Watching (Relative Pitch) - jazz
  • Believers [Brad Shepik/Sam Minaie/John Hadfield]: Hard Believer (Shifting Paradigm) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Gregg Belisle-Chi: Slow Crawl: Performing the Music of Tim Berne (Intakt) [08-00] - jazz
  • Andy Bell: Pinball Wanderer (Sonic Cathedral) [02-28] - neo-psychedelia
  • Benny Benack III: This Is the Life (Bandstand Presents) [06-27] - jazz [***]
  • Benediction: Ravage of Empires (Nuclear Blast) [04-04] - metal
  • Benefits: Constant Noise (Invada) [03-21] - electropop [**]
  • Antonia Bennett: Expressions (self-released) [06-13] - jazz [**]
  • Miki Berenyi Trio: Tripla (Bella Union) [04-04] [***]
  • Leif Berger: Secret, Normalization (Klaeng) [05-02] - jazz
  • Natelie Bergman: My Home Is Not in This World (Third Man) [07-18] - singer-songwriter
  • Bergthron: Neu Asen Land () [01-06] - metal
  • Sasha Berliner: Fantôme (Outside In Music) [03-28] - jazz [**]
  • Tim Berne/Tom Rainey/Gregg Belisle-Chi: Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) [01-17] - jazz [***]
  • Matt Berninger: Get Sunk (Concord) [05-30] - indie rock
  • Håkon Berre: Mirror Matter (Barefoot) [05-12] - jazz [**]
  • Matt Berry: Heard Noises (Acid Jazz) [01-24] - psychedelic rock
  • Marilina Bertoldi: Para Quien Trabajas Vol. 1 (Sony Music Argentina) [05-21] - rock en espaņol [**]
  • Ludovica Bertone: Migration Tales (Endectomorph Music) [04-18] - jazz [***]
  • Jehnny Beth: You Heartberaker, You (Fiction) [08-29] - industrial rock
  • The Beths: Straight Line Was a Lie (Anti-) [08-29] - jangle pop [***]
  • Bettysoo: If You Never Go Away (self-released) [07-18]
  • Between the Buried and Me: The Blue Nowhere (Sumerian/InsideOut) [09-12] - prog metal
  • Emmanuel Bex: Eddy M'a Dit (PeeWee) [05-16] - jazz
  • Yaya Bey: Do It Afraid (Drink Sum Wtr) [06-20] - neo-soul [*]
  • Beyond Extinction: Where They Gather () [09-26] - deathcore
  • Rafiq Bhatia: Environments (Anti-) [09-12]
  • Justin Bieber: Swag (Def Jam/Numbers) [07-11] - alt-pop
  • Justin Bieber: Swag II (Def Jam) [09-05] - pop-soul
  • Big Cheeko: Coulrophobia () [01-17] - hip-hop
  • Big Freedia: Pressing Onward (Queen Diva Music) [08-08] - gospel
  • Big Life: The Cost of Progress (Setterwind) [08-01]
  • Big Special: National Average. (So/Silva Screen) [07-04] - post-punk
  • Big Thief: Double Infinity (4AD) [09-05] - indie rock [A-]
  • Bigg Sluggathor: The Wizard Behind the Curtain () [03-31] - hip-hop
  • Biig Piig: 11:11 (RCA) [02-07] - dance-pop
  • Bilk: Essex, Drugs and Rock and Roll (Scruff of the Neck) [01-24] - indie rock
  • Brian Bilston & the Catenary Wires: Sounds Made by Humans (Sleep Wax) [05-09]
  • Gina Birch: Trouble (Third Man) [07-11] - post-punk [**]
  • Jade Bird: Who Wants to Talk About Love (Glassnote) [07-18] - singer-songwriter
  • The Bird Calls: Melody Trail (Ruination) [02-07] - indie folk
  • Sir Richard Bishop: Hillbilly Ragas (Drag City)
  • Michael Bisio: NuMBq (Mahakala Music) [02-14] - jazz [***]
  • Andy Biskin/Peter Hess/Mike McGinniss/Sam Sadigursky: Reed Basket (self-released) [04-06] - jazz [**]
  • Bitchin Bajas: Inland See (Drag City) [09-26]
  • Ingi Bjarni: Hope (Losen) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Jim Black & the Schrimps: Better You Don't (Intakt) [08-00] - jazz
  • Rebecca Black: Salvation (self-released) [02-27] - electropop
  • Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong (Ninja Tune) [04-04] - art rock [B]
  • The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers (Easy Eye/Warner) [08-08] - blues rock
  • Black Lips: Season of the Peach (Fire) [09-19]
  • Black Milk & Fat Ray: Food From the Gods (Computer Ugly/Fat Beats) [02-13] - hip-hop [**]
  • Black Sheriff: Iron Boy ()
  • Blackbriar: A Thousand Little Deaths (Nuclear Blast) [08-22] - symphonic metal
  • Blacks' Myths Meet Pat Thomas: The Mythstory School (self-released) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Black Narcissus: There Lingers One Who's Long Forgotten () [02-14] - post-rock
  • Black Spiders: Cvrses () [03-14] - hard rock
  • Blacktoothed: Headway (Arising Empire) [01-24] - alt-metal
  • Johnathan Blake: My Life Matters (Blue Note) [09-19] - jazz [**]
  • Robert Sarazin Blake: Let the Longing Run Wild & Free (Same Room) [02-07] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Ron Blake: Scratch Band (7Ten33 Productions) [08-09] - jazz [U]
  • Yugen Blakrok: The Illusion of Being (IOT) [05-21] - hip-hop [***]
  • Maiya Blaney: A Room With a Door That Closes (Lex) [06-13] - alt-pop
  • Theo Bleak: Bad Luck Is Two Yellow Flowers (Polymoon -EP) [05-16]
  • Theo Bleckmann: Love and Anger (Sunnyside) [10-31] - vocal jazz
  • Bleed From Within: Zenith (Nuclear Blast) [04-04] - metalcore
  • Bleeding Through: Nine (SharpTone) [02-14] - metal
  • Blessthefall: Gallows (Rise) [09-05] - metalcore
  • Julian Bliss/Taavi Oramo/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Lindberg & Aho Clarinet Concertos (Signum) [09-05] - classical
  • Rory Block: Heavy on the Blues (M.C.) [07-25] - blues [***]
  • Blockhead: It's Only a Midlife Crisis if Your Life Is Mid (Future Archive) [02-21] - hip-hop [**]
  • Jasper Blom Quartet + Metropole Orkest: Metropolarity (Whirlwind) [05-09] - jazz
  • Blonde Redhead: The Shadow of the Guest (Section1) [06-27] - ambient pop
  • Blondshell: If You Asked for a Picture (Partisan) [05-02] - alt/indie [**]
  • Jaap Blonk: Kurt Schwitters: Ursonate (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [04-04] - jazz
  • Jaap Blonk/Damon Smith/Michael Zerang: Improvisers (Kontrans) - jazz
  • Blood Orange: Essex Honey (RCA/Domino) [08-29] - alt-pop [*]
  • Bloodywood: Nu Delhi (Fearless) [03-21] - metal
  • Jane Ira Bloom: Songs in Space (Outline) [06-26] - jazz [**]
  • Blu & August Fanon: Forty () [04-18] - hip-hop
  • Blue Foundation: Close to the Knife () [04-18] - dream pop
  • Blue Lake: Weft (Tonal Union) [01-17] - chamber folk
  • Blue Moods: Force & Grace (Posi-Tone) [01-03] - jazz
  • Blue Violet: Faux Animaux (Me & My) [ 01-24]
  • Blueprint: Vessel (Weightless) [07-29] - hip-hop [A-]
  • David Bode: Good Hang (1718) - jazz
  • Anneleen Boehme: Eunoia (W.E.R.F.) [04-18] - jazz
  • Boko Yout: Gusto (Hoopdiggas) [09-05]
  • Jason Boland & the Stragglers: The Last Kings of Babylon () - country
  • Boldy James/Chuck Strangers: Token of Appreciation () [02-27] - hip-hop
  • Boldy James & Nicholas Craven: Late to My Own Funeral () [07-11] - hip-hop
  • Boldy James & Real Bad Man: Conversational Pieces () [05-02] - hip-hop
  • Bon Iver: Sable, Fable (Jagjaguwar) [04-11] - art pop [*]
  • Bong-Ra: Black Noise (Debemur Morti) [02-21] - metal
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Purple Bird (No Quarter) [01-31] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Bonnie Trash: Mourning You (Hand Drawn Dracula) [02-28] - metal
  • Benjamin Booker: Lower (Fire Next Time/Thirty Tigers) [01-24] [**]
  • Booker T & the Bleeds: Ode to BC/LY . . . And Eye Know BO . . . Da Prez (Mahakala Music) [01-17] - jazz [B]
  • Benson Boone: American Heart (Night Street/Warner) [06-20] - new wave
  • Booze & Glory: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Concrete Jungle) [09-12] - punk
  • Antonio Borghini & Banquet of Consequences: Resta Chi Va (We Insist!) [12-06] - jazz [A-]
  • Borja: Cuando Cioncidimos () [05-29]
  • Rosa Bordallo: Isidro (Bad Auntie) [01-31]
  • Born of Osiris: Through Shadows (Sumerian) [07-11] - metalcore
  • Ian Bostridge/Saskia Giorgini: Twilight Schumann Songs (PentaTone) [02-28] - classical
  • Christer Bothén 3: L'Invisible (Thanatosis) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Christer Bothén: Christer Bothén Donso N'goni (Black Truffle) [09-12] - jazz
  • Boyish: Gun (R&R) [09-12]
  • Cola Boyy: Quit to Play Chess () [05-23]
  • Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky (ECM) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Adrien Brandeis: Resurgence (Montondea Productions) [05-02] - jazz
  • Emil Brandqvist Trio: Poems for Travellers (Skip) - jazz
  • Daniel Brandt: Without Us (Erased Tapes) [03-21]
  • Anthony Braxton: Trillium X (PMP) [05-09] - jazz
  • Patricia Brennan: Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) [10-24] - jazz [U]
  • Olie Brice: All It Was (West Hill) [07-18] - jazz
  • Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap: Elemental (Mack Avenue) [06-13] - jazz [A-]
  • Bright Eyes: Kids Table (-EP)
  • Jakob Bro Large Ensemble: New Morning (Loveland Music) [01-31] - jazz
  • Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano with Larry Grenadier, Thomas Morgan, AC, Jorge Rossy & Joey Baron: Live at the Village Vanguard (Loveland Music) [03-07] - jazz
  • Alan Broadbent: Threads of Time (Savant) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Brom: Чёрная голова [Black Head] (Addicted Label) [01-17] - jazz [***]
  • Vilhelm Bromander Unfolding Orchestra: Jorden Vi Ärvde (Thanatosis) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Kristen R Bromley Quartet: Wes 101 (self-released) - jazz
  • Broncho: Natural Pleasure (Broncho Worldwide) [04-25] - shoegaze
  • Broodman: Liminality (self-released) - jazz
  • Kenny Brooks: Inner Flame (self-released) [08-22] - pop jazz
  • Brother Ali: Satisfied Soul (Mello Music Group) [02-14] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Peter Brötzmann/Jason Adasiewice/Steve Noble/John Edwards: The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku) [03-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Yves Brouqui: Mean What You Say (SteepleChase) [04-04] - jazz [**]
  • Apollo Brown & Bronze Nazareth: Funeral for a Dream (Escapism) [07-25] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Danny Brown: Starburst (Warp) [11-07] - hip-hop
  • Kane Brown: The High Road (RCA Nashville) [01-24] - country
  • Martin Luke Brown: Man Oh Man! (AMK) [02-21]
  • Phil Brown: Rule of Three (A Caldera Productions) - jazz
  • Rob Brown: Walkabout (Mahakala Music) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Brown Horse: All the Right Weaknesses (Loose) [ 04-04] - slacker rock
  • Brown Spirits: Cosmic Seeds (Soul Jazz) [01-10] - krautrock
  • Bruiser Wolf: Potluck () [05-30] - hip-hop
  • Kevin Brunkhorst: After the Fire (Calligram) [07-11] - jazz [B]
  • Gary Brunton: Spacecraft (Juste Une Trace) - jazz
  • Buck 65: Keep Moving (Handsmade) [04-28] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Michael Buckley: Ebb and Flow (Livia) [02-27] - jazz [**]
  • Jarod Bufe: Brighter Days (Calligram) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Buffet Lunch: Perfect Hit (Upset the Rhythm) [04-04]
  • Sara Bug: Into the Blue () [02-14]
  • The Bug Club: Very Human Features (Sub Pop)
  • Basia Bulat: Basia's Place (Secret City) [02-21] - chamber pop
  • Bunbury: Cuentas Pendientes (Warner) [04-25]
  • BunnaB: Bunna Summer (Ice Cream Summer Deluxe) ()
  • Buried Realm: The Dormant Darkness () [04-04] - metal
  • Burna Boy: No Sign of Weakness (Spaceshjip/Bad Habit/Atlantic) [07-10] - Afrobeats
  • The Burning Hell: Ghost Palace (You've Changed) [03-07] - indie folk
  • Burning Witches: Inquisition (Napalm) [08-22] - metal
  • Joshua Burnside: Teeth of Time (Nettwerk) [02-28] - singer-songwriter
  • Burnt Sugar/The Arkestra Chamber: If You Can't Dazzle Them With Your Brilliance, Then Baffle Them With Your Blisluth Pt. Two (Avant Groid Musica) [02-07] - jazz [**]
  • Bury Tomorrow: Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience (Music for Nations) [05-16] - alt-metal
  • Buscabulla: Se Amaba Así (Domino) [06-13] - alt-pop
  • Butch Bastard: Death Valley () [ 03-28]
  • Butcher Brown: Letters From the Atlantic (Concord Jazz) [03-28] - jazz
  • David Byrne & Ghost Train Orchestra: Who Is the Sky? (Matador) [09-05] - art pop
  • David Caffey Jazz Orchestra: At the Edge of Spring (self-released) - jazz
  • Sarah Cahill/Regina Myers: D. Riley Nicholson: Up () [04-25]
  • Colbie Caillat: This Time Around (Black Box) [09-26]
  • Ethel Cain: Perverts (Daughters of Cain) [01-08] - darkwave [B]
  • Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You (Daughters of Cain) [08-08] - darkwave [*]
  • Rachael Calladine: The Game (33 Jazz) - vocal jazz
  • The Callous Daoboys: I Don't Want to See You in Heaven (MNRK) [05-16] - mathcore
  • Calyces: Fleshy Waves of Probability (Dry Clean) [03-21] - metal
  • Calidore String Quartet: Beethoven: The Early Quartets (Signum) [01-24] - classical
  • Califone: The Villager's Companion (Jealous Butcher) [02-21] - psychedelic folk
  • Royce Campbell/Vosbein Magee Big Band: Vagabond (Max Frank Music) - jazz
  • Victoria Canal: Slowly, It Dawns (Parlophone) [01-17] - indie pop
  • Gaechinger Cantorey & Hans-Christoph Rademann: Johann Sebastian Bach: THe First Cantata Year Vol. 6 (Hänssler) [01-03] - classical
  • Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Gift Songs (Mexican Summer) [03-21] - electroacoustic
  • Renaud Capuçon: Sibelius/Barber: Violin Concertos (Erato) [02-14] - classical
  • Car Seat Headrest: The Scholars (Matador) [05-02] - indie rock [**]
  • Alessia Cara: Love & Hyperbole (Def Jam) [02-14] - indie pop
  • Alessandro Carbonare/Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Edward Gardner: Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto/Helios/Symphony No. 5 (Chandos) [09-05] - classical
  • Caelan Cardello: Chapter One (Jazz Bird) [08-29] - jazz
  • Leandro Cardenas: Against the Jazz Police (577) [10-31] - jazz
  • Cardi B: Am I the Drama? (Atlantic) [09-19] - hip-hop [**]
  • Cardiacs: LSD (The Alphabet Business Concern) [09-19] - art punk
  • Mariah Carey: Here for It All (Gamma/Mariah) [09-26] - r&b
  • Frank Carlberg: Dream Machine (Red Piano) [02-21] - jazz [A-]
  • Belinda Carlisle: Once Upon a Time in California (Demon/Puglady) [08-29]
  • Brandi Carlile & Elton John: Who Believes in Angels? (Mercury) [04-04] [B-]
  • Brandi Carlile: Once Upon a Time in California (Demon/Puglady) [08-29]
  • Nanna Carling: Melodies for Two (The End) [02-14] - jazz [*]
  • Willi Carlisle: Winged Victory (Signature Sounds) [06-27] - country [***]
  • Hayes Carll: We're Only Human (Hwy 87) [08-08] - country [A-]
  • Matt Carmichael: Dancing With Embers (self-released) - jazz
  • Loyle Carner: Hopefully! (EMI/Universal) [06-20] - UK hip-hop [**]
  • Caroline: Caroline 2 (Rough Trade) [05-30] - post-rock [B]
  • Mackenzie Carpenter: Hey Country Queen (Valory Music) [05-07] - country [*]
  • Sabrina Carpenter: Man's Best Friend (Island) [08-29] - pop [A-]
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter/Julie Fowlis/Karine Polwart: Looking for the Thread (Lambient Light) [01-24]
  • Juan Carmona: Laberinto De Luz (Nomad Kultur) - jazz
  • Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell: We Insist 2025! (Candid) [06-13] - jazz [***]
  • Ken Carson: More Chaos (Opium/Interscope) [04-11] - hip-hop
  • Daniel Carter/Ayumi Ishito: Endless Season (577) [02-28] - jazz [***]
  • Daniel Carter/Ayumi Ishito/George Draguns/Ed Wilcox: Makeshift Sprituals Vol. 1 (577) [05-16] - jazz
  • Deborah Carter: The Abraxas Sessions [Volume 6] (Dot Time) [10-10] - vocal jazz
  • Milena Casado: Reflection of Another Self (Candid) [05-16] - jazz [*]
  • Neko Case: Neon Grey Midnight Green (Anti-) [09-26] - singer-songwriter
  • Erika de Casier: Lifetime (Independent Jeep Music) [05-08] - alt r&b [**]
  • Casper Skulls: Kit-Cat (Next Door) [04-11] - indie rock
  • Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra: Vida (Teal Creek Music) - jazz
  • Sharel Cassity: Gratitude (Sunnyside) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Castle Rat: The Bestiary (King Volume) [09-19] - doom metal
  • Isaac Castor & Foul Mouth: The Rabbit Hole 3: Smoking Caterpillar () [02-23] - hip-hop
  • Tommy Castro & the Painkillers: Closer to the Bone (Alligator) [02-07] - blues
  • Causa Sui: In Flux (El Paraiso) [05-16]
  • Caustic Wound: Grinding Mechanism of Torment (Profound Lore) - metal
  • Cave Sermon: Fragile Wings (self-released) [04-16] - metal
  • Cazzu: Latinaja () [04-24] - bachata
  • Central Cee: Can't Rush Greatness (CC4L/Columbia) [01-24] - UK hip-hop [**]
  • Shanti Celeste: Romance (Peach Discs/Method 808) [05-16]
  • Cerrone: Disco Symphony () [02-21]
  • Eddie Chacon: Lay Low (Stones Throw) [01-31] - alt-r&b
  • Raven Chacon: Voiceless Mass () [04-18]
  • Leo Chadburn: Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator () [08-08]
  • Sarah Mary Chadwick: Take Me Out to a Bar/What Am I, Gatsby? (Kill Rock Stars) [04-04] - singer-songwriter [B]
  • Brighde Chaimbeul: Sunwise (Tak:til) [06-27] - jazz/folk
  • Chalk: Conditions III (Nice Swan -EP) [02-21] - dance-punk
  • Bertrand Chamayou: Ravel: Fragments (Erato) [03-07] - classical
  • Joe Chambers/Kevin Diehl/Chad Taylor: Onilu (Eremite) [02-25] - jazz [A-]
  • The Chameleons: Arctic Moon (Metropolis) [09-12] - jangle pop
  • Chance the Rapper: Star Line (self-released) [08-15] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Chaos Magick: Through the Looking Glass (Tzadik) [04-11] - jazz [*]
  • Charaxes: Proof of Life () [01-03]
  • Brian Charette: Borderless ( SteepleChase) [04-11] - jazz [B]
  • Brian Charette: Working Out With Big G (SteepleChase) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Etienne Charles: Gullah Roots (Culture Shock) [06-30] - jazz [**]
  • Sarah Elizabeth Charles: Dawn (Stretch) [10-03] - vocal jazz
  • Charmer: Downpour () [05-23] - emo
  • Jason Charos: Opening Statement (Hollistic MusicWorks) [08-22] - jazz
  • Chartreuse: Bless You & Be Well (Communion Group) [08-29]
  • Alan Chaubert: Just the Three of Us: Me, the Trumpet and the Piano (Pacific Coast Jazz) [02-22] - jazz [**]
  • Che Noir: The Color Chocolate 2 (Poetic Movement) [06-20] - hip-hop
  • Che Noir & the Other Guys: No Validation () [08-29] - hip-hop
  • Chris Cheek: Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory) [05-23] - jazz [*]
  • Cheekface: Middle Spoon (self-released) [02-25] - ska punk
  • Cheerbleederz: Prove Me Wrong (Alcopop! -EP) [09-05]
  • Charles Chen: Building Characters (Cellar Music) - jazz
  • Gloria Cheng: Root Progressions () [01-24] - jazz/classical
  • Chepang: Jhyappa (Relapse) [05-23] - metal
  • Cyrus Chestnut: Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Chicago Edge Ensemble: Paradoxes in Freedom (Lizard Breath) [01-14] - jazz [***]
  • Chicago Jazz Orchestra: More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery (Chicago Jazz Orchestra) [03-28] - jazz [*]
  • Chicago Underground Duo: Hyperglyph (International Anthem) [08-15] - jazz [***]
  • Tyler Childers: Snipe Hunter (Hickman Holler/RCA) [07-25] - country [A-]
  • The Chills: Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire) [02-28] - jangle pop [A-]
  • Chime Oblivion: Chime Oblivion (Deathgod) [04-18]
  • Rachel Chinouriri: Little House (Parlophone -EP) [04-04] - indie pop
  • Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer: Different Rooms (International Anthem) [06-20] - jazz [***]
  • Simon Chivallon: Alone Again (A Personal Songbook) (Jazz&People) [09-19] - jazz
  • Seong-Jin Cho: Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works (Deutsche Grammophon) [01-17] - classical
  • Eugenia Choe: So We Speak (Sunnyside) - jazz
  • Dmytro Choni: Pilgrimage (Naïve) [03-28] - classical
  • Choof: A Very Special Blend of Psychology and Extreme Violence (Dead Set) [01-24]
  • Chrome Hill: En Route (Clean Feed) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • Devon Church: All That's Solild Melts Into Air () [ 11-07]
  • Eric Church: Evangeline vs. the Machine (UMG Nashville) [05-02] - country [*]
  • Ciel: Spice (Nomad) [04-11] - UK hip-hop
  • Amy Cimini: See You When I Get There (Relative Pitch) [06-20] - jazz
  • Circa Waves: Death & Love, Pt. 1 (Lower Third/PIAS) [01-31] - indie rock
  • Circuit des Yeux: Halo on the Inside (Matador) [03-14] - art pop [B]
  • Civilistjävel!: Följd (Felt) [02-14] - ambient
  • Mike Clark: Itai Doshin (Wide Hive) [10-03] - jazz [***]
  • Gerald Clayton: Ones & Twos (Blue Note) [04-11] - jazz [B]
  • Dawn Clement/Buster Williams/Matt Wilson: Delight (Origin) [07-18] - jazz [**]
  • JD Cliffe: Misfit. (APLCO -EP) [04-16] - UK hip-hop
  • Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) [03-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Clipping.: Dead Channel Sky (Sub Pop) [03-14] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Clipse: Let God Sort Them Out (Roc Nation) [07-11] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Cloakroom: Last Leg of the Human Table (Closed Casket Activities) [02-28] - shoegaze
  • Clutter: Loves You (PNKSLM -EP) [04-11]
  • Biffy Clyro: Futique (Warner UK) [09-19] - pop rock
  • CMAT: Euro-Country (CMATBaby/AWAL) [08-29] - indie rock [A-]
  • Coach Party: Caramel (Chess Club) [09-26]
  • Brent Cobb: Ain't Rocked in a While () - country
  • Chris Cochrane's Collapsible Shoulder Big Band: Live 2019: A Map of Books (Cuneiform) [03-28] - rock
  • Laura Cocks: FATHM (Relative Pitch/Out of Our Heads) [02-21] - jazz [B]
  • Coco Chatru Quartet: Limbokolia (Trygger Music) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • CocoRosie: Little Death Wishes (Joyful Noise) [03-28]
  • Coheed and Cambria: Vaxis III: The Father of Make Believe (Virgin) [03-14] - prog rock
  • Alice Cohen: Archaeology (Crinoline) [10-03] - hypnagogic pop
  • Hannah Cohen: Earthstar Mountain (Bella Union/Congrats) [03-28] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Tom Cohen: Embraceable Brazil (Versa) [10-10] - jazz [U]
  • Yuval Cohen Quartet: Winter Poems (ECM) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet: Situation (PlayOn) [01-29]] - jazz [B]
  • Cold Specks: Light for the Midnight (Mute) [04-11]
  • Liz Cole: I Want to Be Happy (self-released) [01-28] - jazz [B]
  • Stella Cole: It's Magic (Decca) [08-22] - vocal jazz
  • Xhosa Cole: On a Modern Genius, Vol. 1 (Stoney Lane) [01-10] - jazz [***]
  • George Coleman: George Coleman With Strings (Savant) [08-29] - jazz [A-]
  • Isaiah Collier/William Hooker/William Parker: The Ancients (Eremite) [01-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Isaiah Collier/Tim Regis: Live in the Listening Room (Vinyl Factory -EP) [09-24] - jazz
  • Bootsy Collins: Album of the Year #1 Funkateer (Bootzilla/Roc Nation) [04-11] - funk [***]
  • Edwyn Collins: Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation (AED) [03-14] - indie pop [**]
  • Marco Colonna: Icarus Falling: To Mosab Abu Toha (self-released) [07-14] - jazz [**]
  • Adegoke Steve Colson & Iqua Colson With Andrew Cyrille/Mark Helias: Glow: Music for Trio . . . and Voice (Silver Sphinx) [08-22] - jazz [***]
  • Brooke Combe: Dancing at the Edge of the World (Modern Sky) [01-31] - pop soul
  • Combust: Belly of the Beast (Triple-B) [03-07] - hardcore punk
  • Confucius MC & Bastien Keb: Songs for Lost Travellers (Native Rebel) [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Dame Sarah Connolly/Joseph Middleton: The World Feels Dusty (Chandos) [09-12] - lied
  • The Convenience: Like Cartoon Vampires (Winspear) [04-18] - alt/indie [**]
  • Miles Cooke: Ceci N'est Pas Un Portrait () [01-10] - hip-hop
  • Alice Cooper: The Revenge of Alice Cooper (EarMusic) [07-25] - hard rock
  • Cootie Catcher: Shy at First (Cooked Raw) [03-05]
  • Claire Cope: Every Journey (Adhyâropa) - jazz
  • Marc Copland: Alter Ego: Lausanne 2012 (The Montreux Jazz Label) - jazz
  • Marc Copland: Dreaming (Innervoice Jazz) - jazz
  • The Cords: The Cords (Slumberland) [09-26]
  • Chick Corea/Christian McBride/Brian Blade: Trilogy 3 (2020, Candid) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Corook: Committed to a Bit (Atlantic) [02-28] - alt-pop [***]
  • Maria Corsaro: Love Makes the Changes (Lola) [11-21] - vocal jazz
  • Gustavo Cortiñas: The Crisis Knows No Borders (Desafio Candente) [04-11] - jazz [***]
  • Cortisa Star: E.M.O. (Evil Motion Overload) () [04-11] - hip-hop
  • Alyn Cosker: Onta (Calligram) [05-02] - jazz [*]
  • Cosey Fanni Tutti: 2t2 (Conspiracy International) [06-13] - post-industrial
  • Cosmic Ear: Traces (We Jazz) [05-23] - jazz [A-]
  • Frankie Cosmos: Different Talking (Sub Pop) [06-27] - indie pop
  • Courting: Lust for Life, or: How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story (Lower Third) [03-14] - dance-punk
  • Anla Courtis & Lehtisalo: 1972 (Full Connect) [03-04] - electroacoustic [A-]
  • Vincent Courtois/Colin Vallon: A Simple Fall (BMC) [10-10] - jazz
  • Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) [03-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Sylvie Courvoisier: To Be Other-Wise ( Intakt) - jazz
  • Kara-Lis Coverdale: From Where You Came (Smalltown Supersound) [05-09] - ambient
  • Cradle of Filth: The Screaming of the Valkyries (Napalm) [03-21] - metal
  • Crayola Lectern: Disasternoon (Onomatopoeia) [08-15]
  • Crippling Alcoholism: Camgirl (Portrayal of Guilt) [09-12] - gothic rock
  • Marilyn Crispell/Thommy Andersson/Michala Østergaard-Nilsen: The Cave (ILK Music) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • Charley Crockett: Lonesome Drifter (Lone Star Rider/Island) [03-14] - country [**]
  • Charley Crockett: Dollar a Day (Lone Star Rider/Island) [08-08] - country [***]
  • Theo Croker: Dream Manifest (Dom Recs) [06-13] - jazz [*]
  • Helene Cronin: Maybe New Mexico (self-released) [03-07] - country [A-]
  • Joy Crookes: Juniper (Insanity) [09-19] - neo-soul
  • Jeremy Crosmer/Mahan Esfahani/Mitsuru Kubo/Jackson Symphony Orchestra/Matthew Aubin: Fernande Decruck: Concertante Works Volume 2 (Claves) [03-07] - concerto
  • Theon Cross: Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil) [07-11] - jazz [**]
  • Rodney Crowell: Airline Highway (New West) [08-29] - country [***]
  • Adrian Crowley: Measure of Joy (Valley of Eyes) [02-07] - singer-songwriter
  • Cruce Signatus: II () [04-04] - metal
  • Crushed: No Scope (Ghostly) [09-26] - shoegaze
  • Cryogeyser: Cryogeyser () [02-14] - indie rock
  • Cryptopsy: An Insatiable Violence (Season of Mist) [06-20] - metal
  • Cryptosis: Celestial Death (Century Media) [03-07] - metal
  • Cuco: Ridin' (Interscope) [05-09] - neo-soul
  • Ermelinda Cuellar: Under a Lavender Sky (self-released) [03-21] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Cult Therapy: Get Fucked, Sinner () [04-04]
  • The Cure: Mixes of a Lost World (Polydor/Fiction) [06-13] - rock remix
  • Curren$y & Harry Fraud: Never Catch Us () [03-14] - hip-hop
  • Cymande: Renascence (BMG) [01-31] - funk [**]
  • Cynefin: Shimli (Recordladau Smotyn Du) [01-31]
  • Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful (MCEO/Columbia) [05-30] - art pop [**]
  • Noah Cyrus: I Want My Loved Ones to Go With Me (Columbia) [07-11] - singer-songwriter
  • Cytotoxin: Biographyte (Blood Blast) [04-11] - metal
  • Czech Philharmonic/Semyon Bychkov: Mahler Symphony No. 3 (PentaTone) [03-07] - classical
  • Chuck D: Chuck D Presents Enemy Radio: Radio Armageddon (Def Jam) [05-16] - hip-hop [*]
  • D4vd: Withered (Darkroom/Interscope) [ 04-25] - indie pop
  • Brian D'Addario: Till the Morning (Headstack) [03-20] - folk rock
  • Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band: La Fleure De Cayenne (Sunnyside) [05-23] - jazz [*]
  • Duduka Da Fonseca Trio: Rio Fantasia (Sunnyside) [02-14] - jazz
  • Da Inphamus Amadeuz/The Punchline Academy: The Punchline Playbook: Lesson 1 () [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Linda Dachtyl: Full Steam Ahead (Chicken Coup) [07-18] - jazz
  • Lucy Dacus: Forever Is a Feeling (Geffen) [03-28] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Daffo: Where the Earth Bends (Concord) [09-26]
  • Amalie Dahl: Breaking/Building Habits (SauaJazz) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Lucretia Dalt: A Danger to Ourselves (RVNG) [09-05] - art pop
  • Christopher Dammann: Sextet (Out of Your Head) [02-07] - jazz [***]
  • Lao Dan: To Hit a Pressure Point (Relative Pitch) - jazz
  • D.D. Danahy: Half Baked () [01-28]
  • Dancer: More or Less (Meritorio) [09-12]
  • Jesse Daniel: Son of the San Lorenzo (Lightning Rod) [06-06] - country [**]
  • Matt Daniel: The Poet (self-released) - country [**]
  • Danielle Ate the Sandwich: Fumbling () [03-21]
  • Dark Watcher: The Law of Bone and Sinew (self-released) [09-12] - black metal
  • The Darkness: Dreams on Toast (Cooking Vinyl) [03-28]
  • Darkside: Nothing (Matador) [02-28] - neo-psychedelia
  • Sylvain Darrifourcq/Manuel Hermia/Valentin Ceccaldi: Unicorn and Flexibility (Hector) [05-05] - jazz
  • Das B [Mazen Kerbaj/Mike Majkowski/Magda Mayas/Tony Buck: Love (Thanatosis Produktion/Corbett vs. Dempsey) - jazz
  • Daughter of Swords: Alex (Psychic Hotline) [04-11] - indie pop
  • Damiano David: Funny Little Fears (Arista/Sony Italy) [05-16] - pop
  • Jonah David: Waltz for Eli (Swish Tap) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Davido: 5ive (Davido/Sony) [04-18]
  • Lise Davidsen/Gerald Finley/Edward Gardner: Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer (Decca) [04-18] - opera
  • Marie Davidson: City of Clowns (Deewee) [02-28] - techno [A-]
  • Caroline Davis and Dustin Carlson: Sprites (Out of Your Head) [08-29] - jazz
  • James Davis' Beveled: Arc and Edge (Calligram) [05-02] - jazz [***]
  • Nathan Davis/Sylvia Milo: Earthworks (Sono Luminus) [04-25]
  • Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band: New Threats From the Soul (Sophomore Lounge/Tough Love) [07-25] - alt/indie [*]
  • Stephen Davis Unit: The Gleaming World (577) [02-14] - jazz
  • Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari: Journey to Nabta Playa (Spiritmuse) [05-02] - jazz [B]
  • Dawn After Dawn: Home Is Where You Are (577) [03-28] - jazz
  • Dawn of Ouroboros: Bioluminescence (Prosthetic) [03-07] - metal
  • Dawn Patrol Jazz Band: A Tribute to Benny Strickler and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band (self-released) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • Rich Dawson: End of the Middle (Weird World/Domino) [02-14] - singer-songwriter [B]
  • Dawson Gool: Bark Mulch (-EP) [02-20]
  • A Day to Remember: Big Ole Album Vol. 1 (Fueled by Ramen) [M|metal]
  • Pierre De Bethmann Quartet: Agapé (Aléa) - jazz
  • Deacon Blue: The Great Western Road (Cooking Vinyl) [03-21] - pop rock
  • Dead Pioneers: Po$t American (Hassle) [04-11] - punk
  • Deadguy: Near-Death Travel Services (Relapse) [06-27] - metalcore
  • Deaf Club: We Demand a Permanent State of Happiness (Southern Lord) [09-19]
  • Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner) [03-28] - metal [*]
  • Geoffrey Dean Quartet: Conceptions (Cellar Music) [04-04] - jazz [*]
  • Olivia Dean: The Art of Loving (Capitol/Polydor) [09-26] - pop soul
  • Dear Uncle Lennie: Sister Juniper (BMC) [09-26] - jazz
  • Michael Dease: City Life: Music of Greg Hill (Origin) [06-20] - jazz
  • Michael Dease: Flow (Posi-Tone) - jazz
  • Death Goals: Survival Is an Act of Defiance (-EP) [08-29] - mathcore
  • Death in Vegas: Death Mask (Drone) [06-06] - acid techno
  • Deena: This Is the Time (-EP) [09-19] - singer-songwriter
  • Defcee & Parallel Thought: Other Blues LP () [06-06] - hip-hop
  • Deftones: Private Music (Reprise) [08-22]
  • Barry Deister Quintet: An African Suite (Trans-Pacific Jazz) - jazz
  • Grey DeLisle & Friends: It's All Her Fault: A Tribute to Cindy Walker (Brooklyn Basement) [10-10] - country
  • Hannah Delynn: Trust Fall (self-released) [09-09] - folk [**]
  • Orhan Demir/Neil Swainson: Wicked Demon (Hittite) [07-14] - jazz [**]
  • Deradoorian: Ready for Heaven (Fire) [05-09] - art pop
  • Dear Derrick Featuring Kool Keith: Galaxy Thot () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • Death by Unga Bunga: Raw Muscular Power (Jansen) [02-07] - garage rock
  • Deathless Legacy: Damnatio Aeterna (Scarlet) [03-07] - metal
  • Deathretro: The Art of Collision (Cosmic Glue) [02-28]
  • Deep Sea Diver: Billboard Heart (Sub Pop) [02-28] - indie rock
  • Jerry David DeCicca: Cardiac Country (Sophomore Lounge) [04-25]
  • Decius: Decius Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience) (The Leaf Label) [ 01-31] - acid house [***]
  • Deepstaria Enigmatica: The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow (ESP-Disk) [02-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Deerhoof: Noble and Godlike in Ruin (Joyful Noise) [04-25] - experimental rock
  • Maya Delilah: The Long Way Around (Blue Note) [03-28]
  • The Delines: Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom (Decor) [02-14] - country soul [**]
  • Delivery: Force Majeure (Heavenly) [01-17] - post-punk
  • Mac DeMarco: Guitar (Mac's Record Label) [08-22] - singer-songwriter
  • Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole (International Anthem) [03-07] - chamber jazz [**]
  • Der Weg Einer Freiheit: Innern (Season of Mist) [09-12] - metal
  • Randal Despommier: South (Sunnyside) - jazz
  • Erez Dessel: Pro Fake No Reject (Corbett vs. Dempsey) - jazz
  • Destroyer: Dan's Boogie (Merge) [03-28] [**]
  • Destruction: Birth of Malice (Napalm) [03-07] - metal
  • Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Jader Bignamini: Wynton Marsalis: Blues Symphony (PentaTone) [03-14] - modern classical
  • The Devil Makes Three: Spirits (New West) [02-28] - alt-country [*]
  • Dezmin'd: Breathing's All That Matters () [05-23]
  • Alessandro Di Liberto: Punti Di Vista (GleAM) - jazz
  • Diabolizer: Murderous Revelations (Dark Crescent/Me Saco Un Ojo) [04-11] - metal
  • Claude Diallo: Alone . . . Finally!!! Live From Weserburg, Bremen (Dot Time) [10-03] - jazz
  • Diamond Dogs & Chris Spedding: Macon Georgia Giant (Wild Kingdom) [02-14]
  • Diaphane: München (Neither/Nor) - jazz
  • Dickson & Familiar: All the Light of Our Sphere (Sounds Familiar) [05-31] - jazz [U]
  • Die Spitz: Something to Consume (Third Man) [09-12] - alt-metal
  • Paul Dietrich's Elemental Quartet: A Small Patch of Earth (self-released) - jazz
  • Dijon: Baby (R&R/Warner) [08-15] - alt-r&b [*]
  • John Dikeman/Sun-Mi Hong/Aaron Lumley/Marta Warelis: Old Adam on Turtle Island (Relative Pitch) [01-24] - jazz [B]
  • DirtyDiggs: Gold Chain Music () [02-26] - hip-hop
  • Disrupted: Stinking Death () [01-24] - metal
  • Distrik22: Brooklyn Queens Expressway () [01-20] - hip-hop
  • Ditz: Never Exhale (self-released) [01-24] - post-punk
  • Diva Jazz Orchestra: A Celebration of Maurice Hines: Tappin' Thru Life (self-released) [05-13] - jazz
  • Divide and Dissolve: Insatiable (Bella Union) [04-18] - drone metal
  • The Divine Comedy: Rainy Sunday Afternoon (Divine Comedy) [09-19] - baroque pop
  • Divorce: Drive to Goldenhammer (Gravity/Capitol) [03-07] - indie rock [*]
  • McKinley Dixon: Magic, Alive! (City Slang) [06-06] - hip-hop [**]
  • DJ Dadaman & Moscow Dollar: Ka Gaza (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [04-25] - Afrobeat [***]
  • DJ Haram: Beside Myself ( Hyperdub) [07-18] - hip-hop [**]
  • DJ Koze: Music Can Hear Us (Pampa) [04-04] - downtempo [**]
  • DJ Premier & Roc Marciano: The Coldest Profession (To the Top) [08-08] - hip-hop
  • DJ Python: I Was Put on This Earth (XL -EP) [03-28] - ambient techno
  • DJ Shaun-D: From Bubbling to Dutch House (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [05-23] - electronic [***]
  • Djo: The Crux (AWAL) [04-04] - indie pop [*]
  • Djrum: Under Tangled Silence (Houndstooth) [04-25] - electronic [***]
  • Louise Dodds: All I Know (AMP Music) - jazz
  • Dodie: Not for Lack of Trying (Decca) [10-03] - folk pop
  • Jim Doherty: Jim Doherty's Spondance (Livia) - jazz
  • Peter Doherty: Felt Better Alive (Strap Originals) [05-16] - indie folk
  • Doja Cat: Vie (Kemosabe/RCA) [09-26] - dance-pop [**]
  • Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. & the Wild Magnolias: Chip Off the Old Block (Strong Place Music) - r&b [*]
  • Domain: Philosophy of the Blade (Daze -EP) [02-17] - metal
  • Domestic Drafts: Only the Singer () [02-28]
  • Chano Dominguez/Ethan Margolis: The Blues Around Us (Unifying Sounds) [10-10] - jazz
  • Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country: Horizons () - country
  • Michel Doneda/Frederic Blondy: Points of Convergence (Relative Pitch) - jazz
  • Anita Donndorff: Thirsty Soul (Fresh Sound New Talent) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Doodlebug & 80 Empire: A Galactic Love Supreme (Gladiator) [03-07] - hip-hop [B]
  • The Doohickeys: All Hat No Cattle () - country
  • Doreen's Jazz New Orleans: Vol. 33: Walkin' Through the Streets (self-released) - jazz
  • Dormant Ordeal: Tooth and Nail (Willowtip) [04-18] - death metal
  • Dorothy: The Way (Roc Nation) [03-14] - hard rock
  • Doseone/Steel Tipped Dove: All Portrait, No Chorus (Backwoodz Studioz) [01-10] - hip-hop [**]
  • Doseone & Height Keech: Wood Teeth (Hands Made -EP) [07-04] - hip-hop [***]
  • Double Virgo: Shakedown (Year0001) [07-03] - post-grunge [***]
  • Dave Douglas: Alloy (Greenleaf Music) [09-05] - jazz [**]
  • Larry Douglas: Music Speaks for Me [Deluxe] () [09-22] - jazz
  • Doves: Constellations for the Lonely (EMI North) [02-28] - dream pop [*]
  • David Dower Trio: Sonder (self-released) [02-21] - jazz
  • Tara Nome Doyle: Ekko (FatCat) [04-11] - singer-songwriter
  • Dr. Purgatory: The Consumption: A Tragic Folkale in Six Parts (self-released) - jazz
  • Drank [Ingrid Schmoliner/Alexander Kranabetter]: Breath in Definition (Trost) [04-04] - jazz [***]
  • Terry Draper: Infinity () [01-17]
  • Dream Theater: Parasomnia (InsideOut/Ytse Jams) [02-07] - metal
  • Dreamweavers: Woven in Time (Perdido) - jazz
  • Dressed Like Boys: Dressed Like Boys (Mayway) [08-29] - art pop
  • The Driver Era: Obsession (TOO) [04-11]
  • Drudkh: Shadow Play (Season of Mist) [03-21] - metal
  • Duckwrth: All American F*ckboy (Them Hellas/The Blind Youth) - alt-r&b
  • C Duncan: It's Only a Love Song (Bella Union) [01-24] - chamber pop
  • Dunes: Land of the Blind () [01-17] - stoner rock
  • Baxter Dury: Allbarone (Heavenly) [09-12] - synthpop [*]
  • Kerala Dust: An Echo of Love (Play It Again Sam USA) [08-22]
  • Dutch Interior: Moneyball (Fat Possum) [03-21] - indie rock
  • Paul van Dyk: This World Is Ours () [04-11] - trance
  • Dying Wish: Flesh Stays Together (SharpTone) [09-26] - metalcore
  • Dynazty: Game of Faces (Nuclear Blast) [02-14] - metal
  • Marina Džukljev/Christian Weber/Michael Griener: Industrielsalon (Trouble in the East) [05-30] - jazz
  • Open Mike Eagle: Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (Auto Reverse) [07-11] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Early James: Medium Raw (Easy Eye Sound) [01-10] - roots rock [B]
  • Earscratcher: Otoliths (Aerophonic) [10-10] - jazz [U]
  • Anderson East: Worthy (Rounder) [05-30]
  • Dave East & Ransom: The Final Call () [02-21] - hip-hop
  • Silke Eberhard Trio: Being-a-Ning (Intakt) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Echolalia: Echolalia (Full Time Hobby) [02-28] - psychedelic folk
  • Chris Eckman: The Land We Knew the Best (Glitterhouse) [01-24] - alt-country
  • Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield: Speaking in Tongues (Adhyâropa) - jazz
  • Eclectic Maybe Band: Cosmic Light Clusters (Discus Music) [01-25] - jazz
  • Eddy Current Suppression Ring: Shapes and Forms (Cool Death -EP) [07-09] - alt/indie [*]
  • Edition Redux [Ken Vandermark]: Broadcast Transformer (Audiographic) [01-17] - jazz
  • Beau Edmondson: The the End () - country
  • Kathleen Edwards: Billionaire (Dualtone) [08-22] - Americana [**]
  • Eera: I'll Stop When I'm Done (Test Card) [09-26]
  • Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation: This Time (Sunnyside) [05-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Mathias Eick: Lullaby (ECM) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Eidola: Mend ( Blue Swan/Rise) [01-17] - math rock
  • Eight Dice Cloth: The Songs and Arrangements of Armand J. Piron (self-released) [05-11] - jazz [***]
  • Mats Eilertsen: 1 (Hemli) [03-28] - jazz
  • Ludovico Einaudi: The Summer Portraits (Ponderosa Music) [01-31]
  • El Michaels Affair: 24 Hr Sports (Big Crown) [09-05] - hip-hop
  • Petter Eldh: Projekt Drums Vol. 2 (Edition) [10-10] - jazz
  • Electric Gumbo: It's On! (Full Beam Music) - jazz
  • Joe Elefante: Joe Elefante's Wheel of Dharma (self-released) [01-13] - jazz [*]
  • Elisabeth Elektra: Hypersigil (Occult Babes) [06-06]
  • Eduardo Elia: Desvíos ( 577) [06-20] - jazz
  • Myron Elkins: Nostalgia for Sale () - country
  • John Ellis: Heroes (Blue Room Music) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Perimenopop (Decca) [09-12] - dance-pop
  • Amir ElSaffar/Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch: Inner Spaces (Kuroneko) [03-21] - jazz [*]
  • Joe Ely: Love & Freedom (Rack 'Em) [02-07] - country [***]
  • Esme Emerson: Applesauce (Communion -EP) [03-07] - indie pop
  • Signe Emmeluth/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Axel Filip: Hyperboreal Trio (Relative Pitch) [06-20] - jazz [***]
  • The Empress: Square One (Cellar Music Group) [03-21] - jazz
  • End It: Wrong Side of Heaven (Flatspot) [08-29] - hardcore punk
  • Avi C. Engel: Nocturne (Soundtrack for an Invisible Film) (Somewherecold/Shaking Box) [01-03]
  • Lawrence English: Even the Horizon Knows Its Bounds (Room40) [01-31] - ambient
  • Ensemble C: Every Journey (Adhyâropa) [03-08] - jazz [B]
  • Ensemble Shippolly: Love Shippolly (Niteco Studio & Music Arts) [06-20] - jazz
  • Entre Amigos: Magpie: The Music of Joe Clark (Entre Amigos) [06-13] - jazz
  • Envy of None: Stygian Wavz (Kscope) [03-28]
  • Epica: Aspiral (Nuclear Blast) [04-11] - metal
  • Shuteen Erdenebaatar/Nils Kugelmann: Under the Same Stars (Motéma Music) [09-12] - jazz
  • Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force: Khadim (Ndagga) [05-09] - world [**]
  • Tara Erraught/Ruth Rosique/Julien Dran/Chamber Choir Ireland/National Symphony of Ireland/Jean-Luc Tingaud: Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande - Suite; Prométhée (Excerpts); Shylock; Songs (Naxos) [01-10] - classical
  • Peter Erskine & the Jam Music Lab All-Stars: Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner (Origin) [01-17] - jazz [*]
  • Martin Escalante/Charlie Mumma/Tete Leguia: This Molten Salt (Wash and Wear) - jazz
  • Martin Escalante: Playing Harsh Noise on the Saxophone Since 2012 (Wash and Wear) - jazz
  • Mahan Esfahani: Bach: Das Wohltemperirte Clavier 1 (Hyperion) [08-29] - baroque
  • Jorge Espinal: Bombos Y Cencerros (Buh) [08-29] - Peru [**]
  • EST Gee: I Ain't Feeling You (Interscope) [01-31] - hip-hop
  • Esthesis Quartet: Sound & Fury (Sunnyside) [05-09] - jazz
  • Jeff Evans Porkestra: When Pigs Dance (self-relesed -EP) [03-14] - country [**]
  • Morgan Evans-Weiler & J.P.A. Falzone: Penumbra (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Peter Evans/Petter Eldh: JazzFest (More Is More) [05-02] - jazz [**]
  • Eventless Plot/Francesco Covarino: Methesis (Innovo) - jazz
  • Everyone Says Hi: Everyone Says Hi (Prediction/Chrysalis) [01-31] - neo-psychedelia
  • Everything Is Recorded: Temporary (XL) [02-28] - art pop
  • Evidence: Unlearning Vol. 2 (Rhymesayers Entertainment) [08-15] - hip-hop [*]
  • The Ex: If Your Mirror Breaks (Ex) [04-06] - alt/indie [A-]
  • Ex_libris: Ex_Libris 001 (Ex#x5f;libris -EP) [06-27] - electronic [**]
  • Ex_libris: Ex_Libris 002 (Ex#x5f;libris -EP) [06-27] - electronic [**]
  • Ex-Vöid: In Love Again (Tapete) [01-17] - jangle pop [*]
  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions [Mars Williams/Jim Baker/Ed Wilkerson/Brian Sandstrom/Steve Hunt]: The Last Quintet (Corbett vs. Dempsey -2CD) - Jjazz
  • F5ve: Sequence 01 (LDH Group) [05-05] - bubblegum bass
  • Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko: Our Calling (No Format) [02-14]
  • FACS: Wish Defense (Trouble in Mind) [02-07] - post-punk [A-]
  • Faithless: Champion Sound (self-released) [09-05]
  • Faithxtractor: Loathing & the Noose (Reaper Metal Productions) [01-10] - metal
  • Tav Falco: Desire on Ice () [09-12]
  • Falling Leaves: The Silence That Binds Us (Meuse Music) [09-05] - doom metal
  • Fallujah: Xenotaph (Nuclear Blast) [06-13] - prog metal
  • FaltyDL: Neurotica (Planet Mu) [06-13] - hyperpop
  • Fanfare Ciocarlia/Adrian Raso: The Devil Rides Again () - Romanian
  • Fantastic Twins: Suite of Rooms (House of Slessor -EP) [02-14] - IDM
  • Fantasy of a Broken Heart: Chaos Practicioner (Dots Per Inch -EP) [04-11] - neo-psychedelia
  • Jimmy Farace: Hours Fly, Flowers Die (Shifting Paradigm) [04-11] - jazz
  • Alon Farber Hagiga: Dreams | Dream (Origin) [06-16] - jazz [**]
  • Farma G: How to Kill a Butterfly () [01-31] - hip-hop
  • Ivan Farmakovskiy: Epic Power (SteepleChase) - jazz
  • Joe Farnsworth: The Big Room (Smoke Sessions) [07-25] - jazz [*]
  • FastLife, Madhattan & Spanish Ran: Bergin Hunt & Fish () [02-10] - hip-hop
  • Fatboi Sharif & Driveby: Let Me Out (Deathbomb Arc) [04-24] - hip-hop [*]
  • Maria Faust Sacrum Facere: Marches Rewound & Rewritten (Stunt) [05-09] - jazz [**]
  • Newton Faulkner: Octopus (Battenberg/Cooking Vinyl) [09-19]
  • Margherita Fava: Murrina (self-released) [10-03] - jazz
  • The Favors: The Dream (Darkroom) [09-19] - soft rock
  • Lorraine Feather: The Green World (Relation) [03-28] - vocal jazz [***]
  • Feed LA: More Feed () [08-29] - alt-jazz
  • Sam Fender: People Watching (Polydor) [02-21] - heartland rock [*]
  • Feng: What the Feng () [02-14] - UK hip-hop
  • Bryan Ferry/Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk (Dene Jesmond) [03-28] [A-]
  • Deborah Fialkiewicz: Genetic Radio I.D. () [03-17]
  • Joe Fiedler Trio 2.0: Dragon Suite (Multiphonics) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Fieldwork: Thereupon (Pi) [09-05] - jazz [A-]
  • Diego Figueiredo: I Love Samba (self-released) - jazz
  • Dominic Fike: Rocket (Columbia/Sandy Boys) [08-22] - bedroom pop
  • Fines Double: Espejismo (self-released) [01-28] - hip-hop [***]
  • Craig Finn: Always Been (Thirty Tigers) [04-04] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Samantha Fish: Paper Doll (Rounder) [04-25]
  • Fish Narc: Frog Song () [02-14] - indie rock
  • Trygve Fiske Sextet: The Flowers. The Dance. The Rumble and the Stumble. (Slaraffensongs) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • FKA Twigs: Eusexua (Young/Atlantic) [01-24] - art pop [*]
  • Paul Flaherty: A Willing Passenger (Relative Pitch) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/(Exit) Knarr: Drops (Sonic Transmissions) [08-22] - jazz [**]
  • Béla Fleck/Edmar Castañeda/Antonio Sanchez: BEATrio (Thirty Tigers) [05-16] - jazz [*]
  • Flipturn: Burnout Days (MNRK) [01-24] - indie rock
  • Floodlights: Underneath (PIAS) [03-21] - indie rock
  • Florist: Jellywish (Double Double Whammy) [04-04]
  • Florry: Sounds Like . . . (Dear Life) [05-23] - alt-country
  • The Flower Kings: Love (InsideOut) [05-02] - symphonic prog
  • Flummox: Southern Progress (Needlejuice) [04-11] - metal
  • Flur: Plunge (Latency) [09-05] - jazz fusion
  • Wolfgang Flür: Times (Cherry Red) [03-28]
  • Flyte: Between You and Me (Nettwerk) [08-29] - indie folk
  • FM: Brotherhood () [09-05] - hard rock
  • Miya Folick: Erotica Veronica (Nettwerk/Stop Talking) [02-28] - indie rock
  • Folk Bitch Trio: Now Would Be a Good Time (Jagjaguwar) [07-25] - indie folk [B]
  • Food House: Two House (self-released) [02-28] - hyperpop [B]
  • Adam Forkelid: Dreams (Prophone) [10-24] - jazz [U]
  • Forlorn: Aether (Church Road) [03-28] - metalcore
  • Former Champ: I Saw You in Paradise (Hand of God) [09-19]
  • Robert Forster: Strawberries (Tapete) [05-23] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Amanda Forsythe/Christian Immler/Carlotta Colombo/Jesse Blumberg/Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble/Paul O'Dette/Stephen Stubbs/Robert Mealy: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona/Livietta E Tracollo (CPO) [ 01-03] - classical
  • Anat Fort: The Dreamworld of Paul Motian (Sunnyside) [08-15] - jazz [***]
  • Kevin Fort: Everything I Love (Jerujazz) - jazz
  • Forth Wanderers: The Longer This Goes On (Sub Pop) [07-18] - indie rock
  • Sullivan Fortner: Southern Nights (Artwork) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Bill Fox: Resonance ()
  • John Foxx: Wherever You Are () [03-28]
  • Neal Francis: Return to Zero (ATO) [03-14]
  • François & the Atlas Mountains: Âge Fleuve (InFiné) [ 01-31]
  • Dom Franks' Strayhorn: Duality Pt: 02 (self-released) - jazz
  • Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear (Domino) [01-10] - indie rock [*]
  • Freedom Art Quartet: First Dance (self-released) [06-01] - jazz [A-]
  • Nnenna Freelon: Beneath the Skin (Origin) [03-31] - vocal jazz [A-]
  • Greg Freeman: Burnover (Canvasback/Transgressive) [08-22] - slacker rock
  • Mike Freeman Zonavibe: Circles in a Yellow Room (VOF) [07-24] - jazz [***]
  • Debby Friday: The Starrr of the Queen of Life (Sub Pop) [08-01] - dance-pop [***]
  • Avery Friedman: New Thing (Audio Antihero) [04-18]
  • Friendship: Caveman Wakes Up (Merge) [05-16] - alt-country
  • Friendship Commanders: Bear (Magnetic Eye) [10-10] - metal
  • Fred Frith/Mariá Portugal: Matter (Intakt) [10-31] - jazz
  • Frog: 1000 Variations on the Same Song (Audio Antihero/Tapewormies) [02-14] - jangle pop
  • Frog Eyes: The Open Up (Paper Bag) [03-07] - art rock
  • From the Dirt: Colored Edge of Memory (Partial Lyrics) [06-27] - Americana [***]
  • Edith Frost: In Space (Drag City) [02-28] - singer-songwriter
  • Frost Children: Sister (True Panther/Dirty Hit) [09-12] - electropop
  • Jürg Frey: Longing Landscape (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Fruit Bats: Baby Man (Merge) [09-12] - singer-songwriter
  • Fuerza Regida: 111Xpantia () [05-02] - Latin
  • Sinsuke Fujieda Group: Fukushima (SoFa) [04-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Satoko Fujii GEN: Altitude 1100 Meters (Libra) [01-24] - jazz [***]
  • Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio: Dream a Dream (Libra) [02-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Satoko Fujii This Is It!: Message (Libra) [05-09] - jazz [A-]
  • Tomas Fujiwara: Dream Up (Out of Your Head) [09-12] - jazz
  • Michika Fukumori: Eternity (Summit) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Rhys Fulber: Memory Impulse Autonomy (Artoffact) [09-05]
  • Robbie Fulks: Now Then (Compass) [09-05] - folk [B]
  • Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist: At Home (Turtle Bay) [05-02] - jazz [***]
  • Ms. Ezra Furman: Goodbye Small Head (Bella Union) [05-16] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Fust: Big Ugly (Dear Life) [03-07] - alt-country
  • Korham Futaci: Heavyweight Rehearsal Tapes (PUMA) [02-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Fuubutsushi: Columbia Deluxe (American Dreams) [07-11]
  • Alex G: Headlights (RCA) [07-18] - RCA
  • G-Clef Da Mad Komposa & Jus-P: Xavier & Logan () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • G-Dragon: Übermensch (Empire/Galaxy) [02-25] - synthpop
  • Galactic and Irma Thomas: Audience With the Queen (Tchoup-Zilla) [04-11] - r&b [***]
  • Adrian Galante: Introducing Adrian Galante (Zoho) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Sami Galbi: Ylh Byebye () [05-02]
  • Elliot Galvin: The Ruin (Gearbox) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Ganavya: Nilam (Leiter) [05-23] - jazz
  • Gans: Good for the Soul (Strap Originals) [09-19]
  • Ganser: Animal Hospital (Felte) [08-29] - post-punk
  • Helen Ganya: Share Your Care (Bella Union) [02-07]
  • Garbage: Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (Infectious Music/Stunvolume/BMG) [05-30] - alt rock [A-]
  • Daniel Garbin: Rising (6x20) [03-10] - jazz [*]
  • Socrates Garcia Latin Jazz Orchestra: Shadows of Tomorrow (Summit) [08-22] - jazz
  • Jacob Garchik: Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (Yestereve) [08-29] - jazz [U]
  • Violeta Garcia: IN/OUT (Bongo Joe) [03-07] - jazz
  • Ben Lamar Gay: Yowzers (International Anthem) [06-06] - jazz [*]
  • Geese: Getting Killed (Partisan) [09-26] [B]
  • The Gentle Spring: Looking Back at the World (Too Good to Be True) [01-17] - indie pop
  • Geowulf: The Child (Nettwerk) [01-17]
  • Bruce Gertz Quintet: Octopus Dreams (Open Mind Jazz) [08-15] - jazz [*]
  • GFOTY: Influenzer (Girlfriend) [03-07] - pop [*]
  • Macha Gharibian: Phenomenal Women (Rue Bleu Meredith) [01-24] - jazz
  • Jim Ghedi: Wasteland (Basin Rock) [02-21] - British folk rock
  • Ghost: Skeletá (Loma Vista) [04-25] - metal
  • Ghost Bath: Rose Thorn Necklace (Nuclear Blast) [05-09] - metal
  • Ghostface Killah: Supreme Clientele 2 (Mass Appeal) [08-22] - hip-hop [*]
  • Freddie Gibbs & the Alchemist: Alfredo 2 (ESGN/ALC) [07-25] - hip-hop [*]
  • Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson: What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch) [04-18] - folk [***]
  • Rhiannon Giddens/Karen Slack/Paul Sanchez/Will Liverman/Reginald Mobley/Julian Velasco: Shawn E Okpebholo: Songs in Flight (Cedille) [02-14] - modern classical
  • Lafayette Gilchrist & New Volcanoes: Move With Love (Morphius) [07-25] - jazz [***]
  • Ruby Gill: Some Kind of Control (self-released) [03-28]
  • Marcus Gilmore: Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (self-released) [05-16] - jazz
  • Thea Gilmore: These Quiet Friends (self-released) [02-28]
  • Girlpuppy: Sweetness (Captured Tracks) [03-28]
  • Dave Gisler Trio: The Flying Mega Doghouse (Intakt) [10-24] - jazz
  • John Glacier: Like a Ribbon (Young) [02-14] - UK hip-hop [*]
  • Glaive: Y'all (Slowsilver03/Broke) [09-26] - EDM
  • Robert Glasper: Keys to the City: Volume 1 (Loma Vista) [10-10] - jazz
  • Margaret Glaspy: The Golden Heart Protector (ATO) [09-12]
  • Ani Glass: Phantasmagoria () [09-26]
  • Eliana Glass: E (Shelter Press) [04-25] - vocal jazz
  • Glazyhaze: Sonic (Believe Music) [03-21] - shoegaze
  • Glebe: Gaudí (Daggio) [01-17] - jazz
  • Roger Glenn: My Latin Heart (Patois) [08-22] - jazz [**]
  • Glitterfox: Decoder (Jealous Butcher) [08/22]
  • Don Glori: Paper Can't Wrap Fire (Mr Bongo) [05-16] - alt-r&b [B]
  • Nicole Glover: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Savant) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • José Gobbo Trio: Confluence (Calligram) [07-11] - jazz [**]
  • God Complex: He Watches in Silence (SharpTone -EP) [02-21] - metalcore
  • Charles Wesley Godwin: Lonely Mountain Town () - country
  • GoGo Penguin: Necessary Fictions (XXIM) [06-20] - nu jazz [**]
  • Jon Gold: Chasing Echos (Entropic) [04-28] - jazz [C+]
  • The Golden Dregs: Godspeed (Joy of Life International) [ 04-25]
  • Goldie Presents Rufige Kru: Alpha Omega (Metalheadz/London) [05-16] - drum & bass
  • Larry Goldings: I Will (Sam First) [02-14] - jazz [*]
  • Emma Goldman: All You Are Is We () [04-28] - screamo
  • Golem Mecanique: Siamo Tutti in Pericolo (Ideologic Origin) [03-21]
  • Vinny Golia/Steuart Liebig/Nathan Hubbard: Road Journal Volume Three (Cstor & Pollux) [03-14] - jazz
  • Phillip Golub: Loop 7 (Greyfade) [02-07] - jazz
  • Phillip Golub/Lesley Mok [Dream Brigade]: Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams) [03-14] - jazz
  • Nicolas Gombert & James Weeks: Gombert (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco: I Said I Love You First (Friends Keep Secrets/Interscope) [03-21] - alt-pop
  • The Good Ones: Rwanda Sings With Strings (Glitterbeat) [08-29] - African
  • Brad Goode Polytonal Big Band: The Snake Charmer (Origin) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • S.G. Goodman: Planting by the Signs (Slough Water/Thirty Tigers) [06-20] - alt-country [**]
  • Goose: Everything Must Go (No Coincidence) [04-25] - indie rock
  • Gordi: Like Plasticine (Mushroom) [08-08]
  • Kyle Gordon: Kyle Gordon Is Wonderful (BMG) [04-04] - comedy
  • John Gorka: Unentitled (Red House) [10-03] - folk
  • The Gotobeds: Masterclass (12XU) [ 05-16]
  • Ayelet Rose Gottlieb & Dream Keepers: Dust (Corne de Brume) [04-25] - jazz
  • Omer Govreen Quartet: All Things Equal (J.M.I.) [07-25] - jazz [***]
  • GPS: Directions + Destinations (577) [06-06] - jazz
  • Gràb: Kremess (Prophecy Productions) [02-21] - metal
  • Laura Jane Grace: Adventure Club ()
  • Grails: Miracle Music (Temporary Residence) [05-16]
  • Grand Official: Supreme () [02-02] - hip-hop
  • Grandmas House: Anything for You (Dutchess Box -EP) [04-11]
  • Grandson: Inertia (XX) [09-05] - alt-rock
  • Luigi Grasso: La Dimora Dell'atrove (LP345) [09-26] - jazz [*]
  • Pasquale Grasso: Fervency (Masterworks) [02-07] - jazz
  • Ronny Graupe's Szelest: Newfoundland Tristesse (BMC) [04-11] - jazz
  • Grave Digger: Bone Collector () [01-17] - metal
  • David Gray: Dear Life (Laugh a Minute) [01-17] - folk pop
  • Devin Gray/Anthony Pirog/Dave Ballou: Live at FEMA (Out of Your Head) [09-05] - jazz
  • Rose Gray: Louder, Please (PIAS) [01-17] - dance-pop [***]
  • Saya Gray: Saya (Dirty Hit) [02-21] - art pop
  • Great American Ghost: Tragedy of the Commons (SharpTone) [01-31] - metalcore
  • Great Grandpa: Patience, Moonbeam (Run for Cover) [03-28]
  • The Great Old Ones: Kadath (Season of Mist) [01-24] - metal
  • Kelly Green: Corner of My Dreams (La Reserve) [08-22] - jazz [*]
  • Green Carnation: A Dark Poem, Pt. I: The Shores of Melancholia (Season of Mist) [09-05] - prog metal
  • Green Gardens: Thistlesifting (Tiny Library) [09-05]
  • Jimmy Greene: As We Are Now (Green Music Works) [07-25] - jazz
  • Greet Death: Die in Love (Deathwish) [06-27] - shoegaze
  • Peter Gregson: Peter Gregson (Decca) [04-11]
  • Grentperez: Backflips in a Restaurant () [03-28] - indie pop
  • Grief Ritual: Collapse (Church Road) [01-31] - metalcore
  • Patty Griffin: Crown of Roses (PGM/Thirty Tigers) [07-25] - Americana
  • Michael Grigoni & Pan-American: New World, Lonely Ride (Kranky) [04-04]
  • Grima: Nightside (Napalm) [02-28] - metal
  • Danny Grissett: Travelogue (Savant) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • David Grollman/Andy Haas/Sabrina Salamone: SCRT (self-released) - jazz [A-]
  • Groovology: Almost Home (Sugartown) [01-01] - jazz [B]
  • The Irv Grossman Sextet: Sound Advice (Cellar Music) - jazz
  • Muriel Grossmann: MGQ Live in King Georg, Köln (Powerhouse) [03-05] - jazz [***]
  • David Grubbs: Whistles From Above (Drag City) [02-28] - post-rock
  • GTO Trio [Gadi Levahi/Tal Mashiach/Ofri Nehemya]: Within (Anzic) [01-10] - jazz
  • Guedra Guedra: Mutant (Smugglers Way/Domino) [08-29]
  • Guerilla Toss: You're Weird Now (Sub Pop) [09-12] - neo-psychedelia
  • Ghais Guevara: Goyard Ibn Said (Fat Possum) [01-24] - hip-hop [***]
  • Guided by Voices: Universe Room (GBV) [02-07] - indie rock
  • Joy Guidry: Five Prayers (Jaid) [05-16]
  • Mark Guiliana: Questions (Volume One) (Edition) - jazz
  • Guiltless: Teeth to Sky ( Neurot) [03-07] - metal
  • Goya Gumbani: Warlord of the Weejuns () [03-21] - hip-hop
  • Gustaffson: Black & White Movie (One Boat) [03-21]
  • Mats Gustafsson/Ken Vandermark/Tomeka Reid/Chad Taylor: Pivot (Silkheart) [06-10] - jazz [***]
  • Gwenno: Utopia (Heavenly) [07-11] - art pop
  • Andy Haas/Brian g Skol: The Honeybee Twist (Resonant Music) [08-01] - jazz [***]
  • The Haas Company Featuring Samuel Hällkvist: Vol. 3: Song for Mimi (Psychiatric) [05-01] - jazz [*]
  • The Haas Company Featguring Jerry Goodman: Thirteen (Psychiatric) [08-01] - jazz [B]
  • Hachiku: The Joys of Being Pure at Heart (Marathon Artists) [02-28] - indie pop
  • Andreas Haddeland Trio: Estuar (Tare) [06-13] - jazz [**]
  • Donovan Haffner: Alleviate (self-released) - jazz
  • Noah Haidu: Standards III (Sunnyside) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Haim: I Quit (Columbia) [06-20] - alt-pop [***]
  • Luke Haines & Peter Buck: Going Down to the River . . . to Blow My Mind (Cherry Red) [07-25]
  • Keiji Haino/Natsuki Tamura: What Happened There? (Libra) [01-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Marcin Halat/Maciej Garbowski: The Dialogues (Fundacja Sluchaj -2CD) - jazz
  • Nicole Hale: Some Kind of Longing () [01-23]
  • Halestorm: Everest (Atlantic) [08-08] - alt metal
  • Half Japanese: Adventure (Fire) [07-11] - indie rock
  • Halflives: How Much a Heart Can Take Before It Breaks (-EP) [04-11]
  • Halima: Sweet Tooth (Drink Sum Wtr) [09-19]
  • The Halo Effect: March of the Unheard (Nuclear Blast) [01-10] - metal
  • Mary Halvorson: About Ghosts (Nonesuch) [06-13] - jazz [A-]
  • Yasmine Hamdan: I Remember, I Forget (Hamdanistan) [09-19] - Arabic pop
  • Hamell on Trial: Harp (for Harry) (Saustex) [04-04] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Caylee Hammack: Bed of Roses () [03-07]
  • Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds Featuring Catherine Russell: Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay) [08-15] - jazz [A-]
  • Hand Habits: Blue Reminder (Fat Possum) [08-22] - indie folk
  • Hands Like Houses: Atmospherics (Civilians) [02-14] - post-hardcore
  • Handsome Gentlemen: Filmed by Quentin Tarantino () [02-01] - hip-hop
  • Hanging Hearts: Where's Your Head At (Ropeadope) [06-13] - jazz [*]
  • Hangman's Choir: Saddiction (Nuclear Blast) [02-14] - metal
  • Dave Hanson: Blues Sky (Origin) [03-31] - jazz [**]
  • Simon Spang-Hanssen: Turtle Talk ( Spangster) [05-09] - jazz
  • Happy Family: 4037 (Cuneiform -EP) [03-28] - rock
  • The Happy Fits: Lovesick () [09-19] - power pop
  • Harakiri for the Sky: Scorched Earth (AOP) [01-24] - metal
  • Ed Harcourt: Orphic (Deathless) [11-14]
  • Curtis Harding: Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (Anti-) [09-05]
  • Omari Hardwick: BuffalOes & Butterflies () [02-03] - hip-hop
  • Chris Harms: 1980 (Napalm) [01-31] - synthpop
  • Bryn Harrison: Towards a Slowing of the Past (Another Timbre) - jazz
  • Joel Harrison: Guitar Talk Vol. 2: Classical Duos/Jazz Duos (AGS -2CD) [04-18] - jazz [*]
  • Stan Harrison: Some Pour Soul Has a Fire (self-released) - jazz
  • Billy Hart Quartet: Just (ECM) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Lawrence Hart: Come in out of the Rain (Double Six) [04-04]
  • Nanami Haruta: The Vibe (Origin) - jazz
  • Samuel Hasselhorn/Ammiel Bushakevitz: Franz Schubert: Licht und Schatten (Harmonia Mundi) [02-28] - classical
  • Hataalii: I'll Be Around (Panther Mountain) [04-04]
  • Tyler Hatley/Justin Clyde Williams: The Dick and Tammy Show () - country
  • Haunted Horses: Dweller (Three One G) [01-10] - noise rock
  • Have Mercy: The Loneliest Place I've Ever Been (Rude) [08-29] - emo
  • Havukruunu: Tavastland (Svart) [02-28] - metal
  • Alexander Hawkins: Song Unconditional (Intakt) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Hawkwind: There Is No Space for Us (Cherry Red) [04-18] - space rock
  • Häxkapell: Om Jordens Blod Och Urgravens Grepp () [01-17] - metal
  • Bridget Hayden and the Apparitions: Cold Blows the Rain (Basin Rock) [01-10] - singer-songwriter
  • Phil Haynes/Ben Monder: Transition[s] (Corner Store Jazz) [04-21] - jazz [B]
  • Phil Haynes & Free Country: Liberty Now! (Corner Store Jazz) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • Phil Haynes: Return to Electric (Corner Store Jazz) [04-21] - jazz [**]
  • Miho Hazama: Live Life This Day: Celebrating Thad Jones (Edition) [03-07] - jazz [*]
  • Hazlett: Last Night You Said You Missed Me () [09-12] - singer-songwriter
  • Hearts & Minds: Illuminescence (Astral Spirits) [01-13] - jazz [**]
  • Heartworms: Glutton for Punishment (Speedy Wunderground) [02-07] - gothic rock
  • Heat On: Heat On (Cuneiform) [06-27] - jazz [A-]
  • Jason Heath and the Greedy Souls: Earth Wire Water Airborne (Still Small) [11-14] - roots rock
  • Heavy Lungs: Caviar (FatCat) [04-18]
  • Kieran Hebden & William Tyler: 41 Longfield Street Late '80s (Eat Your Own Ears) [09-19] - ambient
  • Tim Hecker: Shards (Kranky) [02-21] - ambient [**]
  • Ralph Heidel: Anyways.Onto Better Things () [02-21] - jazz
  • Hekla: Turnar (Phantom Limb) [03-14] - dark ambient
  • Gilad Hekselman: Downhill From Here (La Reserve/Diggers Factory) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • Hellacopters: Overdriver (Nuclear Blast) [01-31] - hard rock
  • Helloween: Giants & Monsters (Reigning Phoenix) [08-29] - metal
  • The Hemphill Stringtet: Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) [04-04] - jazz [***]
  • Nick Hempton/Cory Weeds: Horns Locked (Cellar Music) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Felix Henkelhausen Quintet: The Excruciating Pain of Boredom (self-released) [05-16] - jazz
  • Sarah Hennies/Richard Valitutto: SOVT (Elsewhere) - jazz
  • Arve Henriksen/Trygve Seim/Andmers Jormin/Markku Ounaskari: Arcanum (ECM) [05-02] - jazz [*]
  • Todd Herbert: Captain Hubs (TH Productions) [10-01] - jazz [U]
  • Heretoir: Solastalgia (ADP) [09-19] - post-metal
  • Yaron Herman: Radio Paradise (Naive) - jazz
  • Fred Hersch: The Surrounding Green (ECM) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Daniel Herskedal: Movements of Air (Edition) [04-25] - jazz [B]
  • Jake Hertzog: Ozark Concerto (Zoho) [03-21] - jazz [B-]
  • Conrad Herwig: Reflections - Facing South (Savant) [08-29] - jazz [***]
  • Jacob Felix Heule/Teté Leguía/Sanishta Rivero/Martín Escalante: An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing (Kettle Hole) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Hexrot: Formless Ruin of Oblivion (Transcending Obscurity) [08-29] - metal
  • HHY & the Kampala Unit: Turbo Meltdown (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [04-11] - African/electronic [**]
  • Lilly Hiatt: Forever (New West) [01-31] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Flora Hibberd: Swirl (22Twenty) [01-17] - singer-songwriter
  • Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Avian Field Recordings (Soft Launch) [08-12] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • The Hidden Cameras: Bronto () [09-12] - deep house
  • Hierarchies: Hierarchies (Transcending Obscurity) [01-17] - metal
  • Hieroglyphic Being: Dance Music 4 Bad People (Smalltown Supersound) [04-18] - electronic [***]
  • Marko Hietala: Roses From the Deep (Nuclear Blast) [02-07] - metal
  • Hifi Sean & David McAlmont: Twilight (Plastique) [02-14]
  • High.: Come Back Down () [01-24] - shoegaze
  • The High & Mighty: Sound of Market (Eastern Conference) [06-06] - hip-hop [***]
  • The High Society New Orleans Jazz Band: Live at Birdland (Turtle Bay) [09-18] - jazz
  • Nyron Higor: Nyron Higor (Far Out) [01-31]
  • Arthur Hill: In the Middle of Somewhere (self-released -EP) [02-14]
  • Jennie Hill: Floating (Rat Beach) - jazz
  • Eric Hilton: Midnight Ragas (Montserrat House Music) [06-20]
  • Lisa Hilton: Extended Daydream (Ruby Slippers) [11-28] - jazz
  • Makiko Hirabayashi Weavers: Gifts (Enja) [01-22] - jazz
  • Midori Hirano & Brueder Selke: Split Scale (Thrill Jockey) [01-24]
  • Hirax: Faster Than Death (Armageddon) [02-28] - metal
  • Hiromi's Sonicwonder: Out There (Telarc) [04-04] - jazz [B]
  • Steve Hirsh: Root Causes (Mahakala Music) - jazz
  • History Dog: Root Systems (Otherly Love) [05-09] - jazz [***]
  • HiTech: Honeypaqq Vol. 1 (Loma Vista) [05-09] - electronic [*]
  • The Hives: The Hives Forever Forever the Hives (PIAS) [08-29] - garage rock [***]
  • Ho99o9: Tomorrow We Escape (Last Gang/999 Deathkult/MNRK) [09-09] - hip-hop
  • Audrey Hobert: Who's the Clown? (RCA) [08-15] - indie pop
  • Anna Högberg Attack: Ensamseglaren (Fönstret) [10-03] - jazz
  • Hamilton de Holanda Trio: Live in NYC (Sony) [05-20] - jazz
  • Jasper Høiby: Fellow Creatures: We Must Fight (Edition) [07-18] - jazz [**]
  • James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel: The Universe Will Take Care of You (Border Community) [06-13] - electronic [A-]
  • Benny Holiday: Holiday Land () [01-17] - hip-hop
  • Lonnie Holley: Tonky (Jagjaguwar) [03-21] - prog soul
  • Peter Holsapple: The Face of 68 (Label 51)
  • Home Is Where: Hunting Season (Wax Bodega)
  • Homeboy Sandman & Illingsworth: Dancing Tree (self-released -EP) [02-28] - hip-hop [***]
  • Homeboy Sandman & Yeyts.: Corn Hole Legend (self-released -EP) [04-04] - hip-hop [*]
  • Homeboy Sandman & Brand the Builder: Manners (self-released -EP) [05-16] - hip-hop [*]
  • Homeboy Sandman: Soli Deo Gloria () - hip-hop
  • Gao Hong/Baluji Shrivastav: Neelam (ARC Music) [09-26] - China/India [*]
  • Sun-Mi Hong: Fourth Page: Meaning of a Nest (Edition) [03-14] - jazz [*]
  • Patterson Hood: Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams (ATO) [02-21] - alt/indie [***]
  • Deborah Holland: I Made It This Far () [03-07]
  • Lonnie Holley: Tonky (Jagjaguwar) [03-21] - soul
  • Samuel Hollis & Tara Cunningham: Music for Moving Pictures II (-EP) [ 03-14]
  • Honesty: U R Here (Partisan) [02-07]
  • Honningbarna: Soft Spot (Nye Blanke) [02-28] - punk
  • Calum Hood: Order Chaos Order (EMI) [06-13] - new wave
  • Hooded Menace: Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration (Season of Mist) [10-03] - metal
  • William Hooker: Jubilation (ORG Music) [02-07] - jazz [**]
  • Hooveriii: Manhunter (The Reverberation Appreciation Society) [05-16]
  • Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: Mapambazuko (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [01-24] - African [***]
  • Horizon Trio: Horizon (self-released) - jazz
  • The Horrors: Night Life (Fiction/Universal) [03-21] - post-punk [**]
  • Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On (Matador) [02-14] - twee pop [**]
  • Hot 8 Brass Band: Big Tuba (Tru Thoughts) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Hot Mulligan: The Sound a Body Makes When It's Still (Wax Bodega) [08-22] - pop punk
  • Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon (Third Man) [06-20] - shoegaze
  • HotWax: Hot Shock (Marathon Artists) [03-07] - alt/indie
  • House of All: House of All Souls (Tiny Global) [02-14] - post-punk
  • Glenn Hughes: Chosen (Frontiers) [09-05] - hard rock
  • Julia Hülsmann Quartet: Under the Surface (ECM) [01-25] - jazz
  • Jonathan Hultén: Eyes of the Living Night (Kscope) [01-31] - dark folk
  • Hundredth: Faded Splendor () [05-16] - dream pop
  • Hunny: Spirit! (Epitaph) [09-26]
  • Hunx and His Punx: Walk Out on This World (Get Better) [08-22] - punk [B-]
  • Huremic: Seeking Darkness () [03-13] - post-rock
  • Michael Hurley: Broken Homes and Gardens (No Quarter) [09-12] - folk [***]
  • Kjetil Husebø: Piano Transformed - Interspace (Optical Substance) [04-04] - jazz [*]
  • Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist (4AD) [05-02] - art-pop [***]
  • Jason Kao Hwang: Myths of Origin (True Sound) [07-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Hypermass: Apparition Day (Seek & Strike -EP) [03-07] - metal
  • I Prevail: Violent Nature (Fearless) [09-19] - alt metal
  • I See Stars: The Wheel (Sumerian) [09-12] - alt-metal
  • I'm With Her: Wild and Clear and Blue (Rounder) [05-09] - indie folk
  • Luis Ianes/Noël Akchoté: Seuil (self-released) [03-18] - jazz
  • Ider: Last to the World (Nettwerk) [02-21] - indie pop
  • Idle Heirs: Life Is Violence (Relapse) [04-11] - metal
  • Idlewild: Idlewild (V2) [10-03] - indie rock
  • Billy Idol: Dream Into It (Dark Horse) [04-25] - pop punk
  • Igorrr: Amen (Metal Blade) [09-19] - avant-garde metal
  • Ihlo: Legacy (Kscope) [08-29] - prog metal
  • Dieter Ilg Trio: Motherland (Jazzline) [02-28] - jazz
  • Ill Considered: Balm (New Soil) [08-01] - jazz [**]
  • ILL Tone Beats: The Outcome () [03-07] - hip-hop
  • Illit: Bomb (HYBE/Belift Lab -EP) [06-16] - K-pop
  • Illuminati Hotties: Nickle on the Fountain Floor (-EP)
  • Sean Imboden Large Ensemble: Communal Heart (self-released) [04-18] - jazz
  • Immersion & SUSS: Nanocluster Vol. 3 (Swim~) [02-14] - prog electronic
  • Imperial Triumphant: Goldstar (Century Media) [03-21] - metal
  • In Mourning: The Immortal (Supreme Chaos) [08-29] - metal
  • In the Country, Solveig Slettahjell & Knut Reiersrud: Remembrance (Jazzland) - jazz
  • In the Pines: Sunbeam Dream (self-released) [09-12]
  • In the Woods: Otra (Prophecy) [04-11] - metal
  • Index for Working Musik: Which Direction Goes the Beam (Tough Love) [04-04]
  • Industrial Puke: Alive to No Avail (Suicide) [03-28] - metal
  • Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals: A City Drowned in God's Black Tears (Phantom Limb) [04-04] - hip-hop [**]
  • Inhaler: Open Wide (Polydor) [02-07] - new wave
  • Mikko Innanen & Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: Live in Espoo (Fiasko/Sonic Transmissions) [04-22] - jazz [A-]
  • IQ: Dominion (Giant Electric Pea) [03-28] - neo-prog
  • Jon Irabagon: Server Farm (Irabbagast) [02-21] - jazz [***]
  • Christoph Irniger Pilgrim: Human Intelligence Live (Intakt) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • Iron and Wine & Ben Bridwell: Making Good Time (-EP) [09-12]
  • Jason Isbell: Foxes in the Snow (Southeastern) [03-07] - Americana [A-]
  • Eiko Ishibashi: Antigone (Drag City) [03-28]
  • Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke: Pareidolia (Drag City) [08-29] - drone
  • Ayumi Ishito: Roboquarians Vol. 2 (577) [01-03] - jazz [*]
  • Ivy: Traces of You (Bar/None) [09-05] - indie pop
  • Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life (ECM) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • Ashley Jackson: Take Me to the Water (Decca) [03-21] - classical
  • Keefe Jackson/Jakob Heinemann/Adam Shead: Stinger (Irritable Mystic) [08-01] - jazz
  • Jade: That's Showbiz Baby! (RCA) [09-12] - dance pop [**]
  • Kim Jung Jae: Shamanism (Relative Pitch) [06-20] - jazz
  • Max Jaffe: You Want That Too! (Colorfield) [11-21] - jazz
  • JakoJako: Tết 41 (Mute) [04-25]
  • Maja Jaku: Blessed & Bewitched (Origin) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • Naissam Jalal: Souffles (Les Couleurs Du Son) [05-30] - jazz
  • Bob James/Dave Koz: Just Us (Just Koz Entertainment) [03-07] - pop-jazz
  • James K: Friend (AD93) [09-05] - ambient pop
  • Jameszoo: Music for 17 Musicians (Brainfeeder) [05-30] - post-minimalism
  • Sophie Jamieson: I Still Want to Share (Bella Union) [01-17] - singer-songwriter
  • Jane in Ether: Oneiric (Confront) [01-25] - jazz [*]
  • Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) (Dead Oceans) [03-21] - indie pop [*]
  • Gaétan Jarry/Ensemble Marguerite Louise/David Tricou/Romain Champion/Nicolas Brooymans: Charpentier: Missa Assumpta Est Maria (Château de Versailles Spectacles) [02-28] - baroque
  • Yves Jarvis: All Cylinders (In Real Life) [02-28] - prog soul
  • Jasmine.4.T: You Are the Morning (Saddest Factory/Dead Oceans) [01-17] - slacker rock [B]
  • Kazzrie Jaxen & Don Messina: The Dance (New Artists) [04-11] - jazz
  • Jaye Jayle: After Alter (Pelagic) [01-31] - gothic country
  • Erik Jekabson: Breakthrough (Wide Hive) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Jennie: Ruby (Columbia) [03-07] - K-pop [B]
  • Bonnie J Jensen: Rise (MGM Metropolitan Groove Merchants) [08-01] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Eunhye Jeong/Michael Bisio Duo: Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk) [03-14] - jazz [A-]
  • Oscar Jerome: The Fork (New Soil) [04-04] - nu jazz
  • Jeshi: Airbag Woke Me Up (Because Music) [01-24] - UK hip-hop
  • Jethro Tull: Curious Ruminant (InsideOut) [03-07] - folk rock
  • Jetstream Pony: Bowerbirds and Blue Things (Shelflife/Spinout Nuggets) [03-28] - indie pop
  • JID: God Does Like Ugly (Dreamville/Interscope) [08-08] - hip-hop [***]
  • Park Jiha: All Living Things (Glitterbeat) [02-14] - ambient
  • Pablo Jimenez: Objeto (Tour de Bras) - jazz
  • Jin: Echo (HYBE/Big Hit -EP) [05-16] - K-pop
  • Jinjer: Duél (Napalm) [02-07] - djent
  • Cody Jinks: In My Blood (Late August) [07-25] - country [*]
  • Jisoo: Amortage (Blissoo/Warner/Empire -EP) [02-14] - K-pop
  • Jivebomb: Ethereal (Flatspot) [03-28] - metalcore
  • JLZ + GG: Medio Grave (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [08-20]
  • Sven-Åke Johansson Quintet: Stumps (Trost) [01-24] - jazz [***]
  • Coco Jones: Why Not More? (Def Jam) [04-25] - r&b
  • Steve Johns: Mythology (SteepleChase) - jazz
  • JoJo: NGL () [01-24] - r&b
  • Chris Jonas: Backwardsupwardsky: Music From the Desert (Edgetone) [03-04] - jazz [A-]
  • Joe Jonas: Music for People Who Believe in Love (Republic) [05-23]
  • Durand Jones & the Indicators: Flowers (Dead Oceans) [06-27] - soul
  • Eugenie Jones: Eugenie (Open Mic) [01-20] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Jessica Jones Quartet: Edible Flowers (Reva) [01-03] - jazz [***]
  • Rico Jones: Bloodlines (Giant Step Arts) [07-25] - jazz [***]
  • Joni: Things I Left Behind (Hand in Hive/Keeled Scales) [04-11]
  • Rodney Jordan: Memphis Blue (Baxter Music) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Rochelle Jordan: Through the Wall (Empire) [09-26] - dance-pop
  • Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S: Portrait Now (Dot Time) [01-24] - vocal jazz [A-]
  • Anthony Joseph: Rowing Up River to Get Our Names Back (Heavenly Sweetness) [02-07] - jazz poetry [A-]
  • Kathryn Joseph: We Were Made Prey. (Rock Action) [05-30] - art pop
  • Josiah the Gift & Machacha: The Happening (BarsOverBs) [02-14] - hip-hop [**]
  • Joviale: Mount Crystal () [09-12]
  • Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist: Life Is Beautiful (The Freeminded/ALC/Empire) [02-07] - hip-hop [**]
  • Barb Jungr and Her Trio Featuring Simon Wallace: Hallelujah on Desolation Row: The Songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen (Kristalyn) - vocal jazz
  • Junii: Jinx! () [05-15]
  • Junior Brother: The End (Strap Originals) [09-05]
  • Juno 3 [Han-earl Park/Lara Jones/Pat Thomas]: Proxemics (Buster and Friends) [01-15] - jazz
  • Jupiter & Okwess: Ekoya (Airfono) [01-31] - African [*]
  • Kristoff K.Roll: Les Ombres De La Nuit (Mazeto Square) [05-16] - jazz
  • Eddie Kaine & Machacha: Crown Me Kaine () [02-03] - hip-hop
  • Eddie Kaine & Rim: Welcome to Stuyville () [01-08] - hip-hop
  • Kaisa's Machine: Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Jerry Kalaf: Safe Travels (self-released) - jazz
  • Leven Kali: LK99: The Prelude (Def Jam/Universal -EP) [06-27]
  • Kali Trio: The Playful Abstract (Ronin Rhythm) [02-14] - jazz [*]
  • Karol G: Tropicoqueta (Bichota/Interscope) [06-20] - Latin [A-]
  • Jonathan Karrant With the Joe Alterman Trio: Live in Concert () [09-12] - vocal jazz
  • Hesse Kassel: La Brea () [03-01] - art rock
  • Melissa Kassel & Tom Zicarelli Group: Moments (MKMusic) [05-01] - jazz [*]
  • Dalila Kayros: Khthonie (Subsound) [04-04]
  • Kaytranada: Ain't No Damn Way! (RCA) [08-15] - synth funk [***]
  • Kaze & Koichi Makigami: Shishiodoshi (Circum/Libra) [07-11] - jazz [A-]
  • Sasha Keable: Act Right (The Flight Club) [08-08] - r&b
  • Ryan Keberle & Collectiv Do Brasil: Choro Das Aguas (Alternate Side) [07-18] - jazz [***]
  • Larry Keel/Jon Stickley: Larry Keel & Jon Stickley (self-released -EP) [09-05] - jazz [U]
  • Keelepeksjad: Kalev Tuli Koju (Ava Muusika) [03-23] - jazz
  • Tom Keenlyside: Third Street Wobble (self-released) - jazz
  • KEG: Fun's Over (Alcopop!) [03-14] - art punk
  • Salif Keita: So Kono (No Format) [04-11] - African [**]
  • Kele: The Singing Winds Pt. 3 (Kola) [01-17] - indie pop
  • Kelela: In the Blue Light (Warp) [02-11] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Rick Keller: Heroes (Vegas) [08-11] - jazz [U]
  • Nancy Kelly: Be Cool (Origin) [04-18] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Ruston Kelly: Pale, Through the Window (Rounder) [09-12]
  • Gary Kemp: This Destination (EastWest/Warner Music UK) [01-31] - rock
  • KenTheMan: Kinda Famous () [03-04]
  • Madeline Kenney: Kiss From the Balcony (Carpark) [07-18] - art pop
  • KennyHoopla: Conditiosn of an Orphan (Garbagehill -EP) [09-19]
  • Jukka-Pekka Kervinen/Kevin Miller: Primordial (Ramble) [05-02] - jazz [**]
  • Kesha: . (Kesha) [07-04] - electropop
  • Robin Kester: Dark Sky Reserve (Memphis Industries) [09-12] - art pop
  • Kettama: Archangel (Steel City Dance Discs) [10-03] - techno
  • Stefan Keune/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith: Two Felt-Tip Pens: Live at Moers (Balance Point Acoustics) [03-06] - jazz [***]
  • Dave Keyes: Two Trains (MoMojo) [10-24] - blues
  • Wiz Khalifa: Kush + Orange Juice 2 (Taylor Gang) [04-18] - hip-hop
  • Kid Cudi: Free (Wicked Awesome/Republic) [08-22] - alt-r&b
  • Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones: Live in Vilnius (Fern Flower) [11-14] - vocal jazz
  • Carla Kihlstedt: 26 Little Deaths (Cantaloupe Music) [03-28] - jazz
  • Kills Birds: Crave (Lucky Number -EP) [04-11] - grunge
  • Killswitch Engage: This Consequence (Metal Blade) [02-21] - metal
  • Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway: How the Dust Falls (Auricle) [05-20] - jazz [***]
  • Diane King: Sky (self-released) [09-19] - country
  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Phantom Island (P(doom)) [06-13] - symphonic rock
  • King Princess: Girl Violence (Section1) [09-12] - alt-pop
  • Kingdom Molongi: Kembo (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [03-28] - African [B-]
  • Kingfishr: Halcyon (Atlantic) [08-22]
  • Kin'gongolo Kiniata: Kiniata () [04-04]
  • Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse: Opening Night (Kill Rock Stars) [04-18]
  • Domino Kirke: The Most Familiar Star () [04-18]
  • Lola Kirke: Trailblazer (One Riot) [03-21] - country [***]
  • Mark Kirschenmann: Tonics: 7 Melodies for Trumpet With Bamboo Mouthpipe (Infrequent Seams) [01-17] - jazz
  • Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys: Mutiny in the Parlor (self-released) [03-15] - jazz [***]
  • Marilyn Kleinberg: Let Your Heart Lead the Way (Waking Up Music) [05-01] - vocal jazz [***]
  • Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver: Hinterland () [03-07] - prog folk
  • Knats: Knats (Gearbox) [03-28] - jazz [ *]
  • KnCurrent: KnCurrent (Deep Dish) [05-01] - jazz [***]
  • Kneebody: Reach (GroundUP Music) [04-18] - jazz [B]
  • Steve Knight: For Years Gone (self-released) - jazz
  • Knowledge the Pirate: The Round Table (Pimpire/Trouble Chest Entertainment) [05-06] - hip-hop [**]
  • Kirk Knuffke/Stomu Takeishi/Bill Goodwin: Window (Royal Potato Family) [09-19] - jazz [***]
  • Hans Koch & Florian Stoffner: Net (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Charlie Kohlhase's Explorerer Club: A Second Life (Mandorla Music) [06-07] - jazz
  • Kokoroko: Tuff Times Never Last (Brownswood) [07-11] - afrobeat [B]
  • Kristina Koller: Walk On By (self-released) - vocal jazz
  • Alex Koo: Blame It on My Chromosomes (W.E.R.F.) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Kool Keith & Dane Uno: The Yoohoo Bros. () [03-07] - hip-hop
  • Kool Keith: Karpenters () [04-18] - hip-hop
  • Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Thomas KAufmann/Camerata Bern: Exile (Alpha) [01-24] - classical
  • Masayo Koketsu: Nyoinbo - Zenbu Nagareboshi no Sei (Somethin' Cool) [01-22] - jazz
  • Lex Korten: Canopy (Sounderscore) [09-19] - jazz [B]
  • Sofia Kourtesis: Volver (Ninja Tune -EP) [08-01] - deep house [**]
  • Malakoff Kowalski: Songs With Words (Sony) [03-21] - jazz
  • Krakhouse: Bastards of Prog (Cuneiform) [07-25] - experimental rock
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia (Down the Road) [03-28] - bluegrass [**]
  • Krept & Konan: Young Kingz II (Play Dirty) [02-07] - UK hip-hop
  • Krokofant: 6 (Is It Jazz?) [01-10] - jazz-rock
  • Kronos Quartet: Mary Kouyoumdjian: Witness () [ 03-14] - modern classical
  • Kronos Quartet and the Hard Rain Collective: Hard Rain (Red Hot Org) [07-06] - chamber music [**]
  • The Kronstadt Collective: Feel Something (Falloff) [09-09] - jazz
  • Kroppskännedom: Kroppskännedom (Morc) [ 02-12] - avant-folk
  • KRS-One: Temple of Hip Hop Global Awareness (R.A.M.P. Ent Agency) [03-21] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Alexey Kruglov: Transfiguration 100 Duos (Solyd) [02-12] - jazz
  • Joachim Kühn: Échappée (Intakt) [01-31] - jazz [**]
  • Christopher Kunz & Florian Fischer: Die Unwucht Disperation and Focus First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [01-10] - jazz
  • Clemens Kuratle Ydivide: The Default (Intakt) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Kuunatic: Wheels of Ömon (Glitterbeat) [04-11] - experimental rock
  • Takuya Kuroda: Everyday (PPK) - jazz
  • Mádé Kuti: Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From? (LegacyPlus) [07-25] - African
  • Mabel Kwan/Mauricio Pauly/Carrie Shaw Trio: Lunches for the Week (Out of Your Head) [06-27] - jazz
  • Ben Kweller: Cover the Mirrors (Noise Company) [05-30]
  • Jim Kweskin: Doing Things Right (Jalopy) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • L.A. Witch: DOGGOD (Suicide Squeeze) [04-04] - post-punk
  • Henny L.O. & Ewonee: The Coldest Season Ever () [03-21] - hip-hop
  • L.S. Dunes: Violet (Fantasy) [01-31] - emo
  • La Dispute: No One Was Driving the Car (Epitaph) [09-05] - post-hardcore
  • La Torture Des Ténèbres: Episode VII - Revenge of Unfailing Valor (self-released) [03-06] - black noise
  • Lab Rat: Lab Rat (self-released) [01-01] - D-beat
  • Hélène Labarrière: Puzzle (Jazzdor) [05-03] - jazz [**]
  • Benjamin Lackner: Spindrift (ECM) [01-17] - jazz [***]
  • Lacuna Coil: Sleepless Empire (Century Media) [02-14] - metal
  • Lady Gaga: Mayhem (Interscope) [03-07] - electropop [***]
  • Lady Wray: Cover Girl (Big Crown) [09-26]
  • Natalia Lafourcade: Cancionera (Sony [Mexico]) [04-24] - bolero
  • Lake: Bucolic Gene (Don Giovanni) [03-07]
  • Brandon Lake: King of Hearts () [06-13]
  • Seth Lakeman: The Granite Way () [02-14] - singer-songwriter
  • Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out (City Slang) [01-10] - punk [A-]
  • John Lamkin: Hot (self-released) - jazz
  • Rindert Lammers: Thank You Kirin Kiki (Western Vinyl) [04-18]
  • Mathias Landæus/Nina de Heney/Kresten Osgood: Dissolving Patterns (SFÄR) [03-07] - jazz
  • Landmvrks: The Darkest Place I've Ever Been (Arising Empire) [04-25] - metalcore
  • Nils Landgren: Christmas With My Friends IX (ACT Music) [10-31] - jazz
  • Steve Lands: Rearranging the Planets (self-released) [05-02] - jazz
  • Larcenia Roe: Extraction (Unique Leader) [05-16] - deathcore
  • Larkin Poe: Bloom (Tricki-Woo) [01-24] - blues rock
  • Zara Larsson: Midnight Sun (Summer House/Epic) [09-26] - dance-pop
  • Lastelle: Exist Vol. 2 (-EP) [09-12] - post-hardcore
  • Karl Latham: Living Standards II (Dropzone Jazz) [01-17] - jazz [*]
  • Lathe of Heaven: Aurora (Sacred Bones) [08-29] - post-punk
  • The Lathums: Matter Does Not Define (Modern Sky) [02-28] - indie rock
  • Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic -2CD) [04-11] - jazz [B-]
  • Laufey: A Matter of Time (AWAL) [08-22] - jazz pop [**]
  • Laurenne/Louhimo: Falling Through Stars (Frontiers) [04-18]
  • Ant Law: Unified Theories (self-released) - jazz
  • Josh Lawrence: Still We Dream (Posi-Tone) [08-15] - jazz
  • Cate Le Bon: Michelangelo Dying (Mexican Summer) [09-26]
  • Le Sserafim: Hot (Source Music/HYBE) [03-14] - K-pop
  • Le Vice Anglais: Vas-y (4DaRecord) [03-21] - jazz [***]
  • Leap of Faith Orchestra: Sentence Types and Tokens (Evil Clown) - jazz
  • Leap of Faith Orchestra: Problems of Time and Causality (Evil Clown) - jazz
  • Led Bib: Hotel Pupik (Cuneiform) [08-29] - jazz
  • Jennifer Lee: Glimpse (SBE) [06-06] - jazz
  • Okkyung Lee: Just Like Any Other Day: Background Music for Your Mundane Activities (Shelter Press) [09-05] - jazz
  • Legacy of Lovers: Calm Cool Connections (-EP) [01-09]
  • Kathryn Legendre: Here's Your Honky Tonk () - country
  • Legss: Unreal (The State51 Conspiracy) [09-12] - art rock
  • Jim Legxacy: Black British Music (XL) [07-18] - UK hip-hop [*]
  • Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner: The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) [02-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Hamilton Leithauser: This Side of the Island (Glassnote) [03-07] - indie rock
  • Nicolas Leirtrø: Cherry Blossom (Sonic Transmission) [02-14] - jazz [*]
  • Jens Lekman: Songs for Other People's Weddings (Secretly Canadian) [09-12] - baroque pop
  • Noam Lemish: There's Beauty Enough in Being Here () [10-24] - jazz
  • Ute Lemper: Pirate Jenny (The Audiophile Society) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • José Lencastre/Flak: Cloudy Skies (Phonogram Unit) [04-29] - jazz [**]
  • Adrianne Lenker: Live at Revolution Hall (4AD) [04-24] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Jinx Lennon: The Hate Agents Leer at the Last Isle of Hope (Septic Tiger) [04-04] [***]
  • Nick León: A Tropical Entropy (TraTraTrax) [WE|Latin electronic]
  • LeoStayTrill: Home Alone (-EP) [05-23]
  • Billy Lester Trio: High Standards (Ultra Sound) [09-12] - jazz [**]
  • Edvard Graham Lewis: Alreet? (Upp) [01-24]
  • James Brandon Lewis Trio: Apple Cores (Anti-) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
  • James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) [05-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Jeffrey Lewis: The Even More Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis (Don Giovanni/Blang) [03-21] - anti-folk [A-]
  • Mark William Lewis: Mark William Lewis (A24) [09-12] - singer-songwriter
  • SG Lewis: Anemoia (Positiva) [09-05] - dance-pop
  • Lex Nyre: The Best Language () [03-28] - hip-hop
  • Ley Soul: Panda (self-released -EP) [08-01] - neo-soul
  • Dave Liebman/Billy Hart/Adam Rudolph: Beingness (Meta) [05-23] - jazz
  • Carol Liebowitz/Nick Lyons: The Inner Senses (SteepleChase LookOut) [06-01] - jazz [***]
  • Lifeguard: Ripped and Torn (Matador) [06-06] - garage punk [B]
  • Lik: Necro () [04-18] - death metal
  • Lil Baby: Wham (Quality Control/Motown) [01-03] - hip-hop
  • Lil Wayne: Tha Carter VI (Young Money/Republic) [06-06] - hip-hop [*]
  • Lil2posh: Fiesta Boy () [04-04]
  • Lili Maljic: The Nearness of You: In Loving Memory of Jim Rotondi ( Pacific Coast Jazz) [09-12] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Lilo: Blood Ties (Dalliance) [03-28]
  • Yunchan Lim/Martin Alsop/Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 3 (Decca) [05-16] - classical
  • The Limiñanas: Faded (Berreto Music/Because Music) [02-21] - garage rock
  • Peter Lin/AAPI Jazz Collective: Identity (OA2) [07-18] - jazz [***]
  • Liquid Mike: Hell Is an Airport () [09-12] - power pop
  • Lisa: Alter Ego (Lloud/RCA) [02-28] - pop
  • Brian Lisik: Goodnight, Detroit () [04-12]
  • Ira B. Liss: Unexpected Guests (Tall Man) - jazz
  • Littorina Saxophone Quartet: Leaking Pipes (NoBusiness) [05-16] - jazz [***]
  • Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto: Electric War (Easy Eye Sound) [04-18]
  • Little Feat: Strike Up the Band () [05-09] - boogie rock
  • Little Simz: Lotus (Little Simz) [06-06] - hip-hop [*]
  • Kedr Livansky: Myrtus Myth (2MR) [03-07] - art pop [B]
  • Lucy Liyou: Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name (Orange Milk) [03-21] - ambient pop
  • Lizzo: My Face Hurts From Smiling (Nice Life/Atlantic) [06-27] - mixtape [*]
  • Lizzy & the Triggermen: Live at Joe's Pub (self-released) [08-14] - jazz [U]
  • Charles Lloyd: Figure in Blue (Blue Note) [10-10] - jazz
  • Olivia Ellen Lloyd: Do It Myself (self-released) [03-21] - country [***]
  • Zack Lober: So We Could Live (Zennez) [10-03] - jazz [U]
  • Damon Locks: List of Demands (International Anthem) [01-31] - jazz [A-]
  • The Loft: Everything Changes Everything Stays the Same () [03-14] - jangle pop
  • Tony Logue: Dark Horse (Jenny Ridge Productions) [02-21] - country [***]
  • Lolo [Mamah Diabate/Jabel Kanuteh/Stefano Pilia/Marco Zanotti]: Lolo (Black Sweat) [01-28] - African [***]
  • London Choral Sinfonia/Michael Waldron: Malcolm Arnold (Orchid Classics) [02-28] - choral
  • Lonesome: In the Hope This Finds You (Easy Life) [09-19]
  • Andrea Longato: Thinking Heart (self-released) - jazz
  • Longnon Big Band: Istanbounce (Continuo Jazz) [06-06] - jazz
  • David Longstreth/Stargaze/Dirty Projectors: Song of the Earth (Transgressive) [04-04]
  • Loot: Loot (ICP) [03-16] - jazz [A-]
  • Brandon Lopez: Nada Sagrada (Relative Pitch) [02-21] - jazz [***]
  • Brandon Lopez/DoYeon Kim: Syzygy Vol. 1 (577) [01-31] - jazz
  • Ramon Lopez: 40 Springs in Paris (RogueArt) [05-25] - jazz [**]
  • Harold López-Nussa: Nueva Timba ( Blue Note) [09-05] - jazz [**]
  • Rocío Giménez López/Franco Di Renzo/Luciano Ruggieri: La Forma Del Sueño (Blue Art) [04-11] - jazz [***]
  • Rocío Giménez López/Franco Di Renzo/Luciano Ruggieri: La Palabra Repetida (Blue Art) [08-29] - jazz [**]
  • Lord Huron: The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1 (Mercury) [07-18] - indie rock
  • Lord Sko: Piff () [03-28] - hip-hop
  • Lorde: Virgin (Republic) [06-27] - alt-pop [B]
  • Lords of the Underground & Snowgoons: So Legendary (Goon MsSick) [04-11] - hip-hop
  • Los Angeles Improvisation Ensemble: Insubordinate Lunar Transgressions (Denouement) [03-26] - jazz [*]
  • Los Palms: Los Palms (Fuzz Club) [08-29]
  • Los Straitjackets: Somos Los Straitjackets () [09-19]
  • Los Thuthanaka: Los Thuthanaka (none) [03-22] - Latin electronic
  • Loscil: Lake Fire (Kranky) [05-02] - ambient
  • Lots of Hands: Into a Pretty Room (Fire Talk) [01-17] - slacker rock
  • The Lottery Winners: Koko (Modern Sky) [03-21] - indie pop
  • Joe Lovano: Homage (ECM) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Love Is Noise: To Live in a Different Way (Century Media) [02-14] - alt-metal
  • Charlie Lovell-Jones/Sinfonia of London/John Wilson: Walton: Violin Concerto; Symphonic Suite from "Troilus and Cressida"; Portsmouth Point (Chandos) [03-07] - classical
  • Jesse Lovelock: & the Velvet Voices () - country
  • Isabella Lovestory: Vanity (Giant Music) [06-27] - electropop
  • Andy Fairweather Low: The Invisible Bluesman (Last Music) [02-07] - blues [***]
  • Lowheaven: Ritual Decay (MNRK) [08-29]
  • Arjen Anthony Lucassen: Songs No One Will Hear () [09-12]
  • Hans Luchs: The Spell Is Broken (Fresh Sound) - jazz
  • Lucie Sue: Battlestation () [08-29]
  • Lucius: Lucius (Fantasy/Concord/Wildewoman Music) [05-02] - indie rock
  • The Lucky Losers: Arrival (MoMojo) [11-07] - blues
  • Lullahush: Ithaca (Future Classic) [04-11]
  • The Lumineers: Automatic (Dualtone) [02-14] - indie folk
  • Lust for Youth & Croatian Amor: All Worlds (Sacred Bones) [03-07] - indietronica
  • Kilynn Lunsford: Promiscuous Genes (Feel It) [05-16]
  • Marcel Lüscher Quartett: Make Things Happen (Unit) [01-30] - jazz
  • Jo David Meyer Lynse: For Renstemt Klaver (Hubro) - jazz
  • Kyle M.: The Real Me ()
  • M.anifest: New Road and Guava Trees () [03-13]
  • M.W.P.: Temple of Roses () [01-09] - hip-hop
  • M(h)aol: Something Soft (Merge) [05-16] - art punk [***]
  • Doug MacDonald: Santa Monica Session (DMAC Music) [01-01] - jazz [*]
  • Maddie & Tae: Love & Light () [05-02]
  • João Madeira/Miguel Mira: 21 07 12 - 02 05 24 (4DaRecord) [09-12] - jazz
  • Madre Vaca: Yukon (Madre Vaca) [05-26] - jazz [***]
  • Peter Madsen Trio: Faces of Love (Playscape) - jazz
  • Matt Maeson: A Quiet and Harmless Living (09-12)
  • Magana: Bad News (-EP) [01-25]
  • Joe Magnarelli: Concord (SteepleChase) [05-09] - jazz [**]
  • Magnolia Park: Vamp (Epitaph) [04-11] - alt metal
  • Ron Magril: Inspired (GleAM) - jazz
  • Roberto Magris: Lovely Day(s) (JMood) [09-01] - jazz [U]
  • Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo': Room on the Porch (Concord Jazz) [05-23] - blues [***]
  • Mahotella Queens: Buya Buya (Umsakazo) [07-25] - African [A-]
  • John Mailander's Forecast: Let the World In (self-released) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Emi Makabe: Echo ( Sunnyside) [05-16] - jazz [B]
  • Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway: Addicted to the Violence (Scarred for Life) [07-18] - alt metal
  • Post Malone: Tribute to Nirvana (Republic) [04-12]
  • Heather Maloney: Exploding Star (Signature Sounds) [01-31] - singer-songwriter
  • Matt Maltese: Hers (Tonight Matthew) [05-16] - art pop
  • Mamalarky: Hex Key (Epitaph) [0-4-11] - indie rock
  • Georgia Mancio/Alan Broadbent: A Story Left Untold (Roomspin) - jazz
  • Mandrake Handshake: Earth-Sized Worlds (Tip Top) [02-21] - psychedelic rock
  • Månegarm: Edsvuren (Napalm) [08-29] - metal
  • Dan Mangan: Natural Light (Arts & Crafts) [05-16]
  • Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking (Columbia) [02-14] - power pop [*]
  • Clara Mann: Rift (The State51 Conspiracy) [03-07] - indie folk
  • Matilda Mann: Roxwell (Sevenfoursevensix) [02-28] - indie-pop
  • Mantar: Post Apocalyptic Depression (Metal Blade) [02-14] - sludge metal
  • Saku Mantere: Divine Apology (Orchard of Pomegranates) [09-19] - jazz
  • Georgia Maq: God's Favourite (1000 Rats -EP) [09-04]
  • Maranata: Ugly Euphoria (Relative Pitch) - jazz
  • Gillian Margot/Geoffrey Keezer: Gillian Margot and Geoffrey Keezer (MarKeez) [05-23] - jazz
  • Maribou State: Hallucinating Love (Ninja Tune) [01-31] - downtempo
  • Ben Markley: Tell the Truth (OA2) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Marinero: La La La () [02-14]
  • Mark: The Firstfruit (SM Entertainment) [04-07] - K-pop
  • Marmen Quartet: Ligeti & Bartók: String Quartets (BIS) [01-17] - chamber music
  • Jako Maron: Mahavélouz (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [02-07] - afrofuturism [***]
  • Thomas Marriott: Screen Time (Imani/88 Keys) - jazz
  • Billy Marrows and Grande Familia: The Penelope Album Live (Discus Music) - jazz
  • Branford Marsalis Quartet: Belonging (Blue Note) [03-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Billie Marten: Dog Eared (Fiction) [07-18] - singer-songwriter
  • Malcolm Martineau: The Complete Songs of Ravel (Signum) [04-18] - classical
  • Maruja: Tír na nÓg (Music for Nations -EP) [02-21] - post-rock [**]
  • Maruja: Pain to Power (Music for Nations) [09-12] - post-rock [B]
  • Marcin Masecki Trio: Monk (BMC) - jazz
  • Masma Dream World: Please Come to Me () [02-21] - dark ambient
  • Janette Mason: ReWired (JMMusic) [04-25] - jazz
  • Will Mason Quartet: Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus) [01-10] - jazz [**]
  • The Emily Masser Quintet: Songs With My Father (self-released) - jazz
  • Mark Masters Ensemble: Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! (Capri) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Mark Masters Ensemble: Sam Rivers 100 (Capri) [06-09] - jazz [***]
  • Matron: Sunken State (-EP) [04-11]
  • Lawrence Matthews: Between Mortal Reach & Posthumous Grip (self-released) [09-16] - hip-hop
  • Maud the Moth: The Distaff (The Lavarium) [02-21] - metal
  • Ava Max: Don't Click Play (Atlantic) [dance-pop]
  • Maze Overlay & Slang Hugh: Word () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • MC Homeless: Stay Slick () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • Brian John McBrearty: Remembering Repeating (Love Beyond Measure) [01-17]
  • Christian McBride Big Band: Without Further Ado, Vol. 1 (Mack Avenue) [08-29] - jazz [**]
  • Nicole McCabe: A Song to Sing (Colorfield) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Donny McCaslin: Lullaby for the Lost (Edition) [09-26] - jazz [B]
  • Mike McClelland Rm 210: You'll Hear It: The Music of Bob Fenton (Cornerstone) - jazz
  • Walt McClements: On a Painted Ocean (Western Vinyl) [04-04] - ambient
  • Parker McCollum: Parker McCollum () - country
  • Cass McCombs: Interior Live Oak (Domino) [08-15] - singer-songwriter
  • Juliet McConkey: Southern Front (Soggy Anvil) [02-21] - country
  • Drayco McCoy: World Domination (self-released) [02-25] - hip-hop
  • Fergus McCreadie: The Shieling (Edition) [10-24] - jazz
  • Chad McCullough/Gordon Spasovski/Kiril Tufekcievski/Viktor Filipovski: Transverse (Calligram) [07-11] - jazz [***]
  • Tyreek McDole: Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) [06-06] - jazz [*]
  • Alex McLaughlin: A Brand New State (self-released) - jazz
  • The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: Mixed Bag (Summit) [05-23] - jazz [**]
  • Carson McHone: Pentimento (Merge) [09-12] - Americana
  • Sarah McLachlan: Better Broken (Concord) [09-19] - singer-songwriter
  • Mclusky: The World Is Still Her and So Are We (Ipecac) [05-09] - noise rock
  • James McMurtry: The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy (New West) [06-30] - country [A-]
  • Jim McNeely: Primal Colors (Challenge) [04-04] - jazz [*]
  • Joe McPhee: I'm Just Sayin' (Smalltown Supersound) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Eric McPherson: Double Bass Quartet (Giant Step Arts) [07-25] - jazz [**]
  • Jensen McRae: I Don't Know How but They Found Me! (Dead Oceans) [04-25] - singer-songwriter
  • Tate McRae: So Close to What (RCA) [02-21] - pop [***]
  • Mean Mistreater: Do or Die (Dying Victims Productions) [02-21] - metal [*]
  • Mechina: Bellum Interruptum (self-released) [03-23] - metal
  • Medler Sextet: River Paths (OA2) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • Charif Megarbane: Hawalat (Habibi Funk) [04-11] - lounge
  • Brad Mehldau: Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch) [08-29] - jazz [B]
  • Madilyn Mei: A Thousand Songs About It All: Act 1 (Mercury) [09-12]
  • Tobias Meinhart: Sonic River (Sonic River) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • Xol Meissner: Excess of Loss (self-released) [06-13] - art pop
  • Mekons: Horror (Fire) [04-04] - postpunk [A]
  • Myra Melford: Splash (Intakt) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Melodies: Melodies (Ammonite Musique) [01-15] - jazz
  • Melvins: Thunderball (Ipecac) [04-18] - sludge metal
  • Melin Melyn: Mill on the Hill (Kartel) [03-07]
  • Coleman Mellett: Sing You a Brand New Song (Mirror Image Distribution) - vocal jazz
  • Members of the Piatti Quartet/Simon Callaghan/Ashok Klouda: Chamber Music of William Busch (Lyrita) [01-03] - classical
  • Memphis May Fire: Shapeshifter (Rise) [03-28] - metal
  • Memphis Metaphysics: Memphis Metaphysics (Sonic Transmissions) [07-11] - jazz [**]
  • The Men: Buyer Beware (Fuzz Club) [02-28] - garage punk
  • Mên An Tol: This Land (self-released -EP) [09-26]
  • Men I Trust: Equus Asinus (self-released) [03-19] - bedroom pop
  • Men I Trust: Equus Caballus (self-released) [05-06] - bedroom pop
  • Ava Mendoza/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/Carolina Pérez: Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance) [07-11] - jazz [**]
  • Otis Mensah & the Intern: Before the Noise My Cousin () [03-14] - hip-hop
  • Nate Mercereau/Josh Johnson/Carlos Niño: Openness Trio (Blue Note) [07-11] - jazz
  • Stéphane Mercier: Live at the Jazz Station (Step By) - jazz
  • Mereba: The Breeze Grew a Fire (Secretly Canadian) [02-14] - neo-soul
  • Mess Esque: Jay Marie, Comfort Me (Drag City) [03-28]
  • Messa: The Spin (Metal Blade) [04-11] - doom metal
  • Mexstep & Principe Q: Tráfico (Puro Unity -EP) [09-04] - hip-hop [***]
  • Pitney Meyer: Cherokee Pioneer () - country
  • Camila Meza: Portal (GroundUP Music) [05-23] - Latin
  • Michigander: Michigander (Totally Normal) [02-07] - indie rock
  • Michi: Dirty Talk (Stones Throw) [02-28] - r&b [*]
  • Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra: Tenor Madness (self-released) - jazz
  • Midnight: Steel, Rust and Disgust (Metal Blade) [05-23] - metal
  • MIEN: MIIEN (Fuzz Club) [04-18]
  • MIKE: Showbiz! (10k) [01-31] - hip-hop [**]
  • MIKE & Tony Seltzer: Pinball II (10k) [05-07] - hip-hop
  • Mild Minds: Gemini (Foreign Family Collective) [02-21] - house
  • Kelsey Mines: Everything Sacred, Nothing Serious (OA2) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • The Milk: Borderlands () [09-26]
  • Allison Miller With the One O'Clock Lab Band: Big & Lovely (Royal Potato Family) [01-14] - jazz
  • Colin Miller: Losin' (Mtn Laurel) [04-25] - alt-country
  • Roger Clark Miller: Curiosity for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble (Cuneiform) [ 02-28] - experimental rock
  • Blake Mills & Pino Palladino: That Wasn't a Dream (New Deal/Impulse!) - jazz
  • MindsOne: Stages (Fort Lowell) [02-07] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Mafalda Minnozzi: Riofonic (self-released) - jazz
  • Sydney Minsky-Sargeant: Lunga ( Domino) [09-12]
  • Ela Minus: Día (Domino) [01-17] - electropop [**]
  • Mira Trio: Machinerie (4DaRecord) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Mirador: Mirador (Miradorian) [09-19] - southern rock
  • Pasquale Mirra/Hamid Drake: Lhasa (Parco Della Musica) [02-00] - jazz [*]
  • Miso Extra: Earcandy (Transgressive) [05-16] - electropop
  • Miss Tess: Cher Rêve () - country
  • Matt Mitchell: Sacrosancticity (Obliquity) [05-23] - jazz
  • Dennis Mitcheltree/Johannes Wallman: Holding Space (Shifting Paradigm) - jazz
  • Roscoe Mitchell: Gratitude: One Head Four People (Wide Hive) [02-05] - jazz [*]
  • Roscoe Mitchell/Michele Rabbia: In 2 (RogueArt) - jazz
  • Mizmor & Hell: Alluvion (Gilead Media) [04-04] - metal
  • MØ: Plæygirl (Sony) [05-16] - electropop
  • Mdou Moctar: Tears of Injustice (Matador) [02-28] - Saharan rock [***]
  • Model/Actiz: Pirouette (True Panther/Dirty Hit) [05-02] - dance-punk [**]
  • Modern Nature: The Heat Wraps (Bella Union) [08-29]
  • Mogwai: The Bad Fire (Rock Action) [01-24] - shoegaze [*]
  • Billy Mohler: The Eternal (Contagious Music) [03-07] - jazz [***]
  • Kathryn Mohr: Waiting Room (The Flenser) [01-24] - avant-folk
  • The Moles: Composition Book (Splendid Research) [02-07]
  • Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Bees in the Bonnet (Rune Grammofon) [05-09] - jazz [***]
  • Nils Petter Molvaer: Khmer Live in Bergen (Edition) [09-12] - jazz [A-]
  • Momma: Welcome to My Blue Sky (Lucky Number/Polyvinyl) [04-04] - dream pop [**]
  • Silvano Monasterios Venezuelan Nonet: The River (self-released) [04-04] - jazz [**]
  • Monde UFO: Flamingo Tower (Fire) [03-07] - neo-psychedelia
  • Mondo Lava: Utero Dei (Hausu Mountain) [08-12] - hypnagogic pop
  • Polly Money: T-shirt Nothing Else (Cool Online -EP) [03-21] - indie pop
  • MonoNeon: You Had Your Chance - Bad Attitude (Floki Studios) [05-16] - funk [*]
  • Monotype: I Let the Wind Push Down on Me () [05-23]
  • Ashley Monroe: Tennessee Lightning (Mountainrose Sparrow) [08-08] - country [*]
  • Raúl Monsalve Y Los Forajidos: SOL (Olindo) [03-21] - jazz
  • Monsta X: The X (Starship -EP) [09-01] - K-pop
  • Roberto Montero: Todos Os Tempos (Vaicomtudo Music) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • Monteverdi Choir & Jonathan Sells: Bruckner & Gesualdo: Motets (Soli Deo Gloria) [04-18] - choral
  • Meredith Moon: From Here to the Sea (Compass) [09-15]
  • The Moonlandingz: No Rocket Required (Transgressive) [04-25] - dance-punk
  • Moonrisers: Harsh & Exciting (Easy Eye Sound) [05-30] - indie folk
  • Marlaena Moore: Because You Love Everything () [01-17] - dream pop
  • Peter Moore/Tredegar Band/Ian Porthouse: Shift (Chandos) [03-21] - classical
  • Patricio Morales: La Tierra Canta (Northsound) [04-01] - jazz [*]
  • Jason Moran/Trondheim Jazz Orchestra/Ole Morten Vagan: Go to Your North (Yes) [07-14] - jazz
  • The Moran Tripp Band: Jumpers Hole () - country
  • Morcheeba: Escape the Chaos (100%) [05-23]
  • More Eaze & Claire Rousay: No Floor (Thrill Jockey) [03-21] - ambient
  • Jessica Lee Morgan: You Know What You Should Do? () [03-21]
  • Whitey Morgan and the 78's: Live From Bandit Town USA () - country
  • Chloe Moriondo: Oyster (Fueled by Ramen) [ 03-28] - synthpop
  • Morley: Follow the Sound (self-released -24) [2024-09-27] - jazz
  • Joe Morris/Elliott Sharp: Realism (ESP-Disk) [05-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Joe Morris/Brad Barrett/Beth Ann Jones: Abstract Forest (Relative Pitch) [09-25] - jazz [***]
  • Maren Morris: Dreamsicle (Columbia) [05-09] - country
  • Mors Principium Est: Darkness Invisible (Reigning Phoenix) [09-26] - metal
  • Mark Morton: Without the Pain () [04-11] - southern rock
  • Gurf Morlix: A Taste of Ashes (Rootball) [04-01] - Americana [**]
  • Willie Morris: Unbound Inner (Posi-Tone) - jazz
  • Sam Moss: Swimming (self-released) [02-07] - Americana
  • Motherhood: Thunder Perfect Mind () [01-24]
  • Motherless: Do You Feel Safe? (Prosthetic) [09-12] - metal
  • Motian & More: Gratitude (Phonogram Unit) [04-29] - jazz [A-]
  • Motion City Soundtrack: The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World (Epitaph) [09-19] - power pop
  • Motorpsycho: Motorpsycho (Det Nordenfjeldske Grammofonselskab) [02-21] - prog rock
  • Bob Mould: Here We Go Crazy (Granary Music) [03-07] - post-grunge [***]
  • Mourning [A] BLKstar: Flowers for the Living (Don Giovanni) [05-16] [**]
  • Leszek Możdżer/Lars Danielsson/Zohar Fresco: Beamo (ACT Music) [03-27] - jazz [*]
  • Leszek Możdżer/Grégory Privat/Iiro Rantala/Michael Wollny: Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XVI: Piano Night II (ACT Music) [06-27] - jazz
  • MSPAINT: No Separation (Convulse -EP) [05-23] - electropunk
  • Eska Mtungwazi: The Ordinary Life of a Magic Woman (Earthling) [05-23]
  • Mu Quintet: Enos (Jazz Aggression) [02-09] - jazz
  • Maria Muldaur: One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (Nola Blue) [07-21] - blues [A]
  • Kjetil Mulelid Trio: And Now (Grappa) - jazz
  • Moon Mullins: Hotel Paradiso () [05-02]
  • Misha Mullov-Abbado: Effra (Ubuntu Music) - jazz
  • Múm: History of Silence (Morr Music) [09-19] - indietronica
  • Mumford & Sons: Rushmere (Island) [03-28] - folk pop
  • Matthew Muñesses/Riza Printup: Pag-Ibig Ko Vol. 1 (Irabbagast) [04-04] - jazz [***]
  • The Murder Capital: Blindness (Human Season) [02-21] - post-punk
  • Murderers' Row & Snowgoons: Murderers' Row () [01-24] - hip-hop
  • Greg Murphy: Snap Happy (Whaling City Sound) [06-06] - jazz [**]
  • Cornelia Murr: Run to the Center (22Twenty) [02-28] - sophisti-pop
  • Anne Murray: Here You Are (Universal Canada) [09-05]
  • David Murray Quartet: Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Michael Murray's Colourfield: Rounded Nature (ZenneZ) - jazz
  • Museum of Light: Diviner (Spartan) [03-14] - stoner metal
  • Music Soup Organ Trio: Upbeat Mood () - jazz
  • Charlie Musselwhite: Look Out Highway () [05-16] - blues
  • Mutagenic Host: The Diseased Machine (Dry Cough/Gurgling Gore) [01-03] - groove metal
  • Wolfgang Muthspiel/Scott Colley/Brian Blade: Tokyo (ECM) [09-26] - jazz
  • My Morning Jacket: Is (ATO) [03-21] - alt/indie
  • Myd: Mydnight (Ed Banger) [08-29] - house
  • Amina Claudine Myers: Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) [06-20] - jazz [**]
  • Ty Myers: The Select (Columbia) [01-24] - country
  • Whiskey Myers: Whomp Whack Thunder (Wiggy Thump) [09-26]
  • Youssou N'Dour: Éclairer Le Monde - Light the World (self-released) [04-04] - African [***]
  • Marissa Nadler: New Radiations (Sacred Bones) [08-15] - singer-songwriter
  • The Names: Encore! () [02-07] - post-punk
  • Nao: Jupiter (Little Tokyo) [02-21] - r&b [***]
  • Randy Napoleon: Waking Dream: The Music of Gregg Hill (OA2) [08-15] - jazz
  • Napoleon Da Legend & Giallo Point: F.L.A.W. (Legendary) [02-14] - hip-hop [***]
  • Qasim Naqvi: Endling (Erased Tapes) [05-30] - jazz [*]
  • The Nash Ensemble: Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Sonatas Pour Divers Instruments; String Quartet (Hyperion) [01-10] - classical
  • Rico Nasty: Lethal (Fueled by Ramen/Elektra) [05-16] - hip-hop
  • Ittetsu Nasuda: Tailwind (self-released) - jazz
  • Nation of Language: Dance Called Memory (Sub Pop) [09-19] - synthpop
  • Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas: Totality (Drag City) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Patrick Naylor: Organza (Beeboss) - jazz
  • Naxatras: V (self-released) [02-21] - psychedelic rock
  • Lael Neale: Altogether Stranger (Sub Pop) [05-02] - indie pop
  • Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle: Exhaust (Relative Pitch) [06-20] - jazz [***]
  • Camila Nebbia: Rastro O Vacío (Lilaila) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • Necrotic Gore Beast: Brute (Comatose -EP) [09-12] - metal
  • Negros Tou Moria: Mavri Ellada () [04-04]
  • Tami Neilson: Neon Cowgirl () - country
  • Steve Nelson/Joris Teepe/Eric Ineke: A Common Language (Daybreak) [04-01] - jazz
  • Willie Nelson: Oh What a Beautiful World (Legacy) [04-25] - country [A-]
  • Stefania Neonato/Christine Busch: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonaten fÜr Klavier und Violene op. 12 Nr. 3, Op. 30 Nr. 3, Op. 96 (SWR) [01-10] - classical
  • Neptunian Maximalism: Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (LSDSI) (I, Voidhanger) [04-11] - metal
  • Nerves Baddington: Driving Off Cliffs (Apt. B Productions) [02-28] - hip-hop [**]
  • Marius Neset: Cabaret (ACT Music) [02-28] - jazz [*]
  • Andy Nevada: El Rumbón (The Party) (Zoho) [08-08] - jazz [U]
  • Jef Neve & Teus Nobel: Esho Funi (Blue Keys Productions) [02-14] - jazz
  • Nevertel: Start Again (Epitaph) [09-12] - alt-metal
  • Lou Nevins: The Fumes (Cavetone) [07-04] - rock
  • The New Eves: The New Eve Is Rising (Transgressive) [08-01] - art punk
  • New Origin: The Poet's Walk (Fundacja Słuchaj) [04-05] - jazz
  • NewDad: Safe (Atlantic -EP) [05-02] - dream pop
  • NewDad: Altar (Fair Youth) [09-19] - dream pop
  • Nexion: Sundrung (Avantgarde Music) [09-19] - metal
  • Elizabeth Nichols: Tough Love (Pulse -EP) [06-20] - country [**]
  • Maggie Nichols & Geoff Eales: Beautiful Love (33 Jazz) - jazz
  • Angelika Niescier/Sakina Abdou/Bruno Angelini: Lotus Flowers (Abalone) [04-04] - jazz
  • The Night Flight Orchestra: Give Us the Moon (Napalm) [01-31] - hard rock
  • Night Tapes: Portals//Polarities (Nettwerk) [09-26] - dream pop
  • The Nightingales: The Awful Truth (Fire) [04-04] - postpunk [*]
  • Nikhita: Solace (-EP) [04-04]
  • Paal Nilssen-Love Circus With the Ex Guitars: Turn Thy Loose (PNL) [03-21] - jazz [***]
  • Nine Inch Nails: Tron: Ares [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Interscope/Null Corporation/Walt Disney) [09-19] - post-industrial
  • Ninkharsag: The Black Swords of Winter (Vendetta -EP) [03-07] - metal
  • Niontay: Fada<3of$ (10k) [04-25] - hip-hop [*]
  • Nite: Cult of the Serpent Sun (Season of Mist) [03-14] - metal
  • No Tears Project [Christopher Parker & Kelley Hurt]: Humanitics (Mahakala Music) [02-25] - jazz
  • Billy Nomates: Metalhorse (Invada) [05-16] - post-punk [**]
  • Nordkraft Big Band/Remy Le Boeuf/Danielle Wertz: Silent Course (Gateway Music) [04-25] - jazz
  • Eric Normand: Dur Temps Pour Les Rouges (Peanote) - jazz
  • Not Enough Space: Weaponize Your Rage (Thriller) [09-12] - metalcore
  • Nourished by Time: The Passionate Ones (XL) [08-22] - alt-r&b [B]
  • Nova Twins: Parasites & Butterflies (Marshall) [08-29] - industrial rock [**]
  • Novarupta: Astral Sands () [02-14] - metal
  • Novelists: Coda (Ackor Music) [05-16]
  • Novembers Doom: Major Arcana (Prophecy Productions) [09-19] - metal
  • Eva Novoa: Novoa/Kamaguchi/Cleaver Trio Volume 2 (577) [05-23] - jazz [**]
  • Eva Novoa: The Freedom Suite, Novoa/Carter/Mela Trio, Vol. 2 (577) [10-03] - jazz
  • Eva Novoa: Novoa/Gress/Gray Trio, Vol. 2 (577) - jazz
  • Now: Now Does the Trick (Perennial Death) [05-16]
  • Nuclear Dudes: Truth Paste (self-released) [09-05] - grindcore
  • Ian Nyquist: Gilded (Flood) [09-05]
  • Ø: Sysivalo () [ 09-19]
  • O & the Mo: Make Way for the Sun () [ 01-31] - dream pop
  • Geoffrey O'Connor: I Love What We Do (Dinosaur City) [02-14] - sophisti-pop
  • Caili O'Doherty: Bluer Than Blue: Celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong (Outside In Music) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Adam O'Farrill: For These Streets (Out of Your Head) [03-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Arturo O'Farrill/The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) [01-17] - jazz [***]
  • John O'Gallagher: Ancestral (Whirlwind) [10-24] - jazz
  • Obongjayar: Paradise Now (September) [05-30] - alt r&b
  • Obscura: A Sonication (Nuclear Blast) [02-07] - metal
  • Obscure Sphinx: Emovere (self-released -EP) [01-06] - metal
  • Obverse: Obverse (-EP) [01-24] - prog rock
  • OC From NC: Project 25 () [01-01] - hip-hop
  • Larry Ochs/Joe Morris/Charles Downs: Every Day → All the Way (ESP-Disk) [04-11] - jazz [A-]
  • Offset: Kiari (Motown) [08-22] - hip-hop
  • Daniel Ögren: Pine () [02-12]
  • Linda May Han Oh: Strange Heavens (Biophilia) [08-22] - jazz [A-]
  • Ohyung: You Are Always on My Mind (NNA Tapes) [03-28]
  • OK Cool: Chit Chat (Take a Hike) [08-01]
  • OK Go: And the Adjacent Possible (Paracadute) [04-11] - indie pop
  • Noel Okimoto: Hō'ihi (Noel Okimoto Music) [01-01] - jazz [B]
  • Oklou: Choke Enough (True Panther/Because Music) [02-07] - alt-pop [**]
  • Okonski: Entrance Music (Colemine) [02-28]
  • Oldstar: Of the Highway () [03-07] - alt-country
  • Iúri Oliveira: Manifesto (Respirar De Ouvido) [01-10] - jazz
  • Isabelle Olivier: Impressions (Rewound Echoes) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • Tomoko Omura: Run, Run, Run (Outside In Music) [11-14] - jazz
  • The Onions: Return to Paradise (Hitt) [04-04] - pop [C+]
  • Onslaught: Origins of Aggression (Reigning Phoenix) [05-23] - metal
  • Onyx: Lower East Side () [04-11] - hip-hop
  • Open Head: What Is Success (Wharf Cat) [01-24]
  • The Ophelias: Spring Grove (Get Better) [04-04] - chamber pop
  • Ora the Molecule: Dance Therapy (Mute) [03-21] - synthpop
  • Orbit Culture: Death Above Life (Century Media) [10-03] - metal
  • Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet: HausLive4 (Hausu Mountain) [04-29] - jazz [**]
  • ERR: grade bad priority: Bill Orcutt/Steve Shelley/Ethan Miller: Orcutt Shelley Miller
  • Bill Orcutt/Steve Shelley/Ethan Miller: Orcutt Shelley Miller (Silver Current) [09-05] - experimental rock [***]
  • Orlando Consort: A Lover's Death (Hyperion) [01-31] - medieval
  • Aruán Ortiz: Créole Renaissance (Intakt) [08-29] - jazz [***]
  • OsamaSon: Jump Out (Motion Music/Atlantic) [01-24] - hip-hop
  • Otherlands Trio [Stephan Crump/Darius Jones/Eric McPherson]: Star Mountain (Intakt) [10-17] - jazz
  • Royel Otis: Nickey (Ourness) [08-22] - indie pop
  • Alice Sara Ott: John Field: Complete Nocturnes (Deutsche Grammophon) [02-07] - classical
  • Kassa Overall: Cream (Warp) [09-12] - hip-hop [***]
  • Overpass: Dependent (Communion Music Group -EP) [02-28]
  • Oversize: Vital Signs (SharpTone) [02-28] - shoegaze
  • Ovrkast.: While the Iron Is Hot () [05-30] - hip-hop
  • Martin Owen/BBC Philharmonic/Rumon Gamba: Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works Volume 3 (Chandos) [01-03] - classical
  • The Oxys: Casting Pearls Before Swine (Cleopatra) [09-19] - punk [**]
  • Christian Pabst: Rhythm Riot (JazzSick) - jazz
  • Pachyman: Another Place () [05-23]
  • Blair Packham: The Impossible Dream () [03-04]
  • Marina Pacowski: New Jazz Standards Volume 7: The Music of Carl Saunders (Summit) - vocal jazz
  • Gilbert Paeffgen Trio: Der Mann Auf Dem Trampolin (Rabbit Hill) [05-24] - jazz [***]
  • Nino Paid: Love Me as I Am (Signal/Columbia) [02-04] - hip-hop
  • Pain of Truth & Sunami: Coast to Coast Split (Daze/Triple B -EP) [03-03] - metalcore
  • PAL: Under Your Radar (self-released -EP) [03-07] - skronk [***]
  • Paleface Swiss: Cursed (Blood Blast Distribution) [01-03] - deathcore
  • Ed Palermo Big Band: Prog vs Fusion: A War of the Agea (Sky Cat) [04-18] - jazz
  • Michael Cera Palin: We Could Be Brave (Big Scary Monsters) [03-07] - emo-pop
  • Paloma [Dineli Chesky]: Memory () [06-23] - jazz
  • Csaba Palotaï: Soulbread (BMC) [10-24] - jazz
  • Pan Amsterdam: Confines () [05-23] - hip-hop
  • Zhengtao Pan Jazz Orchestra: Scenery in My Story (self-released) - jazz
  • Panchiko: Ginkgo (Nettwerk) [ 04-04] - dream pop
  • Panda Bear: Sinister Grift (Domino) [02-28] - tropical rock [*]
  • Panic Shack: Panic Shack (Brace Yourself) [07-18] - garage punk [A-]
  • Raphaël Pannier: Live in Saint Louis, Senegal (Miel Music) [11-07] - jazz
  • Diana Panton: Soft Winds and Roses (self-released) - vocal jazz
  • Will Paquin: Hahaha (self-released) [09-12] - indie rock
  • Paradise Lost: Ascension (Nuclear Blast) [09-19] - gothic metal
  • Parcels: Loved (Because) [09-12] - indie pop
  • Parchman Prison Prayer: Another Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat) [01-17] - gospel
  • Jon Pardi: Honkytonk Hollywood (Capitol Nashville) [04-11] - country
  • Paris Texas: They Left Me With a Gun (Paris Texas -EP) [02-28] - synth punk
  • Paris Texas: They Left Me With a Sword (Paris Texas -EP) [02-25] - synth punk
  • El Léon Pardo: Viaje Sideral (Aya) [03-21]
  • Evan Parker/Bill Nace: Branches (Otoroku) [05-23] - jazz [*]
  • Evan Parker/Jean-Marc Foussat: Insolence (Nashazphone) [05-22] - jazz
  • Andrea Parkins/Eliad Wagner: Drag Drop Spin & Crawl () - jazz
  • Zeena Parkins: Modesty of the Magic Thing (Tzadik) - jazz
  • Aaron Parks: "By All Means!!" (Blue Note) [11-07] - jazz
  • Parlando/Ian Niederhoffer/Aubree Oliverson: Censored Anthems (Delos) [02-28] - classical
  • Bruno Parrinha/Carlos "Zingaro"/Fred Lonberg-Holm/João Madeira: Enleiro (4DaRecord) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Partynextdoor & Drake: $ome $exy $ongs 4 U (OVO Sound/Republic) [02-14] - alt-r&b
  • Pastel: Sounds in Motion (Spirit of Spike Island) [01-17] - britpop
  • David Pastor: The Abraxas Sessions [Volume 4] (Dot Time) [03-07] - jazz
  • Juan Pastor's Chinchano: Memorias (Calligram) [10-03] - jazz [***]
  • Patriarkh: Prophet Ilja (Napalm) [01-03] - metal
  • Ben Patterson Jazz Orchestra: Mad Scientist Music (Origin) [03-31] - jazz [*]
  • John Patitucci: Spirit Fall (Edition) [02-14] - jazz [***]
  • Nico Paulo: Interval_o (Forward Music Group -EP) [03-21]
  • Alex Paxton: Delicious (New Amsterdam) [05-16] - jazz
  • RJ Payne: Leatherface 4 () [04-11]
  • Vinnie Paz: God Sent Vengeance (Iron Tusk Music) [04-25] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Pé: Æzæl: Eternity of Nonexistence (Tokinogake) [05-09] - electronic [B]
  • Peaceful Faces: Without a Single Fight (Glamour Gowns) [06-06]
  • Pelican: Flickering Resonance (Run for Cover) [05-16] - post-metal
  • Jeremy Pelt: Woven (HighNote) [01-31] - jazz [*]
  • Pendulum: Inertia (Mushroom/Virgin Music) [08-22] - alt-metal
  • Greentea Peng: Tell Dem It's Sunny (AWAL) [03-21] - neo-soul [A-]
  • Pentagram: Lightning in a Bottle (Heavy Psych Sounds) [01-31] - metal
  • Juan Perea: Lightkeeper (Zoho) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Ivo Perelman/Ken Vandermark/Joe McPhee: Oxygen (Mahakala Music) [03-04] - jazz [***]
  • Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio: Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) [06-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Ivo Perelman/Tyshawn Sorey: Parallel Aesthetics (Fundacja Słuchaj) [02-04] - jazz
  • Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley/Matt Moran/Mark Helias/Tom Rainey: A Modicum of the Blues (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
  • Ivo Perelman/Nate Wooley: Polarity 4 (Burning Ambulance) [11-07] - jazz
  • Sabeth Perez: Searching for Beauty (Rogue Tone) [06-01] - jazz
  • Perfume Genius: Glory (Matador) [03-28] [B]
  • Tommaso Perazzo/Marcello Cardillo/Buster Williams: Portrait of a Moment (Red) [05-30] - jazz
  • Perrie: Perrie (Sony Music UK) [09-26] - dance-pop
  • Jauron Perry: Jauron Perry Quintet Live at the 2024 Detroit Jazz Festival (self-released) - jazz
  • Perturbations: Intractable Problems (Evil Clown) - jazz
  • Clément Petit/Sophie Bernado/Jocelyn Mienniel: Brunö Lapin (BMC) [09-05] - jazz
  • Pat Petrillo: Contemporaneous (Innervision) [07-11] - jazz [*]
  • Peyton: Au (Stones Throw) [09-12]
  • Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band: Honeysuckle (Family Owned) [02-13] - blues [**]
  • Phantom Honeymoon: Interstellar Underpass (MechaBenzaiten) [04-04] - jazz
  • Phi-Psonics: Expanding to One (Gondwana) [05-23]
  • Louis Philippe & the Night Mail: The Road to the Sea (Tapete) [05-02]
  • Phill Most Chill/Djar One: Deal With It () [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Phill Most Chill: I'm (Volume One & Volume Two) () [04-29] - hip-hop
  • Dan Phillips Trio: Array in Brown (Lizard Breath) [05-15] - jazz [***]
  • Grant-Lee Phillips: In the Hour of Dust (Yep Roc) [09-05] - folk pop
  • Phrenelith: Ashen Womb (Dark Descent/Me Saco Un Ojo) [02-07] - metal
  • Zoe Pia & Mats Gustafsson: Rite (Parco Della Musica) [03-00] - jazz
  • Pidgins: Refrains of the Day, Volume 2 (Lexical) [04-04] - electronic
  • Cam Pierce: A Thousand Lonely Horses (self-released) [01-12] - country [A-]
  • The Len Pierro Jazz Orchestra: As I Was Saying (Walking Path) - jazz
  • Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Death Hilarious (Rocket) [04-04]
  • Ted Piltzecker: Peace Vibes (OA2) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • Lido Pimienta: La Belleza (Anti-) [05-16] - art pop
  • Pink Siifu: Black'!Antique (Dynamite Hill) [01-27] - hip-hop [*]
  • Katy Pinke & Will Graefe: Patterns (Glamour Gowns) [08-29]
  • PinkPantheress: Fancy That (Warner -EP) [05-09] - dance pop [***]
  • Pinkshift: Earthkeeper (Hopeless) [08-29] - alt metal
  • Alberto Pinton's Relentless: Allt Större Klarhet (Moserobie) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Pissgrave: Malignant Worthlessness (Profound Lore) - metal
  • Pit Pony: Dead Stars (Clue) [02-07] - garage rock
  • Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness: Sextet (Reva) [04-22] - jazz [**]
  • Jefferson Pitcher: The Bellows () [04-11]
  • PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone (Irabbagast) [08-15] - jazz [A-]
  • Paige Plaisance: Louisiana Lonely () - country
  • Alain Planès: Satie (Harmonia Mundi) [03-07] - impressionism
  • Robert Plant: Saving Grace (Nonesuch) [09-26]
  • Playboi Carti: [I Am] Music (AWGE/Interscope) [03-14] - hip-hop [**]
  • Ploy: It's Later Than You Think (Dekmantel) [04-04] - tech house [**]
  • Everson Poe: Enough Is a Myth (Fladh Productions) [09-21]
  • Memet Polat Quartet: Roots in Motion (Aftab) [03-28] - jazz
  • Emma Pollock: Begging the Night to Take Hold (Chemikal Underground) [09-26]
  • Ken Pomeroy: Cruel Joke (Rounder) [05-16] - country [***]
  • Poor Creature: All Smiles Tonight (River Lea) [07-11] - Irish folk
  • Pop Evil: What Remains (MNRK Heavy) [03-21] - metal
  • Mike Pope: The Parts You Keep (Origin) [08-22] - jazz [**]
  • Poptones: Pure () [09-26]
  • Population II: Maintenant Jamais () [03-28] - psychedelic rock
  • Benjie Porecki: All That Matters (Funklove Productions) [01-01] - jazz [**]
  • Porridge Radio: The Machine Starts to Sing (Secretly Canadian -EP) [02-21] - indie rock [*]
  • Posi-Tone Swingtet: In Jazz We Trust (Posi-Tone) [02-28] - jazz
  • Pothamus: Abur (Pelagic) [02-14] - metal
  • Potsa Lotsa XL: Amoeba's Dance (Trouble in the East) [05-30] - jazz [**]
  • Jackson Potter: Small Things (Shifting Paradigm) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Brigid Mae Power: Songs for You (self-released) [01-09] - folk
  • Lyra Pramuk: Hymnal (7K!) [06-13] - electroacoustic
  • Sam Prekop: Open Close (Thrill Jockey) [09-26] - electronic [*]
  • Simona Premazzi/Kyle Nasser Quartet: From What I Recall (OA2) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Noah Preminger: Ballads (Chill Tone) [02-25] - jazz [***]
  • PremRock: Did You Enjoy Your Time Here . . . ? (Backwoodz Studioz) [03-21] - hip-hop [***]
  • Preoccupations: Ill at Ease (Born Losers) [05-09] - post-punk
  • Preservation & Gabe 'Nandez: Sortilège (Backwoodz Studioz) [08-15] - hip-hop [***]
  • Preservation Brass: For Fat Man (Sub Pop) [01-31] - trad jazz [***]
  • President: King of Terrors (King of Terrors -EP) [09-26] - alt-r&b
  • Pretty Rude: Ripe () [05-16]
  • Margo Price: Hard Headed Woman (Loma Vista) [08-29] - country [***]
  • Prima Queen: The Prize (Submarine Cat) [04-25] - indie rock
  • Primal Fear: Domination (Reigning Phoenix) [09-05] - metal
  • Prism Shores: Out From Underneath (Meritorio) [01-17] - shoegaze
  • Prison: Downstate (Drag City) [01-31] - psychedelic rock
  • Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke: Tall Tales (Warp) [05-09] - glitch pop [**]
  • Private Function: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (none) [05-23]
  • Private Property: Private Property (Kraakeslottet Platekompagni) [01-17] - punk-jazz [***]
  • The Prize: In the Red (Anti Fade) [09-19] - power pop [**]
  • Prolapse: I Wonder When They're Going to Destroy Your Face (Tapete) [08-29]
  • Public Circuit: Modern Church (A La Carte) [09-12]
  • Public Enemy: Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025 (Enemy) [06-27] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Pulp: More (Rough Trade) [06-06] - art rock [*]
  • Pulse: Body Is Reality () [02-07] - metal
  • Puma Blue: Antichamber (Blue Flowers) [02-18] - indie folk
  • PUP: Who Will Look After the Dogs? (Rise) [05-02] - indie rock [*]
  • Shawn Purcell: Oblivity (Origin) [09-19] - jazz
  • Purelink: Faith (Peak Oil) [06-06]
  • Purified in Blood: Primal Pulse Thunder () [03-14] - metal
  • Purity Ring: Puritn Ring (The Fellowship) [09-26] - dream pop
  • Joey Purp & Thelonious Martin: Champagne Seats () [06-06] - hip-hop
  • Matthew Putnam/Hill Greene/Francisco Mela: Believe That Was Me (577) [09-09] - jazz
  • Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon: J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor (Harmonia Mundi) [04-04] - baroque
  • Pyres: Yun () [03-07] - metal
  • Quade: The Foel Tower (AD 93) [04-18] - post-rock
  • Jo Quail: Notan (Adderstone) [09-12]
  • The Quantum Blues Quartet: Quantum Blues (Ropeadope) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Quatuor Diotima: Boulez: Livre Pour Quatuor (PentaTone) [03-21] - classical
  • Jesse Quebbeman-Turley: Hosana: Le Messe De Nostre Dame () [05-23]
  • Queen Herawin: Awaken the Sleeping Giant (Matic) [02-28] - hip-hop [***]
  • Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs (Metador) [06-13] - acoustic rock
  • Quickly, Quickly: I Heard That Noise (Ghostly International) [04-18] - art pop
  • Quinie: Forefowk, Mind Me () [05-23]
  • Ra Bishop [Avreeayl Ra & Jeb Bishop]: Of the Essence (Amalgam) [04-04] - jazz
  • Jesika von Rabbit: Bunnywood Babylon (Dionysus) [06-13] - electopop [**]
  • Rachael & Vilray: West of Broadway (Concord Jazz) [08-08] - jazz
  • Ariane Racicot: Danser Avec Le Feu (self-released) - jazz
  • Kojey Radical: Don't Look Down (Warner/Asylum/Bellyempty) [09-19] - UK hip-hop
  • Raekwon: The Emperor's New Clothes (Mass Appeal/Ice H2O) [07-18] - hip-hop
  • Raisa K: Affectionately (15 Love) [03-07] - art pop
  • Shez Raja: Spellbound (Raja) [06-20] - jazz
  • Guthrie Ramsey: Race Music 21: Etudes/Grooves/Interludes (Musiqology) [02-07] - jazz
  • Beatrice Rana/Amsterdam Sinfonietta: Bach: Keyboard Concertos (Parlophone/Warner Classics) [03-21] - classical
  • Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha/Aron Goldin: Masabane Cecilia (Rubicon) [02-28] - lied
  • Iiro Rantala/Kaisa Mäensivu/Morten Lund: Trinity [Edition Palmer III] (ACT Music) [11-14] - jazz
  • Reneé Rapp: Bite Me (Interscope) [08-01] - alt-pop
  • Rapt: Until the Light Takes Us (Start Track) [02-21] - indie folk
  • Andrew Rathbun: Lost in the Shadows (SteepleChase) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Rats on Rafts: Deep Below (Fire) [02-07]
  • Ada Rave/Marta Warelis: Peel Mondo (Relative Pitch) - jazz
  • Raven: Gnosis (Incienso) [02-14] - ambient
  • Ravita Jazz: Alice Blue (Ravita Music) [08-15] - jazz [B]
  • Emma Rawicz: Inkyra (ACT Music) [10-31] - jazz
  • Gwenifer Raymond: Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark () [09-05]
  • Alison Rayner Quintet: Sema4 (Blow the Fuse) - jazz
  • Real Bad Man & Genevieve Artgadi: Everything Is Under Control (Real Bad Man) [10-03] - hip-hop
  • Real Lies: We Will Annihilate Our Enemies (Tonal) [04-16]
  • Recognize Ali & Stu Bangas: Guerilla Dynasty 3 () [03-14] - hip-hop
  • Recognize Ali & Tragedy Khadafi: The Past the Present and the Future () [07-04] - hip-hop
  • Red Rum Club: Buck (Modern Sky UK) [09-05]
  • Red Telephone: Delay the New Day () [01-31]
  • The Reddish Fetish With the Jersey City All Stars: Llegue (F&F) [05-01] - jazz [***]
  • Redline the Ace: Origin Story () [01-13] - hip-hop
  • Joshua Redman: Words Fall Short (Blue Note) [06-20] - jazz [**]
  • Eric Scott Reed: Out Late (Smoke Sessions) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Peter Rehberg: Liminal States (Editions Mego) [01-31]
  • Nadia Reid: Enter Now Brightness (Chrysalis) [02-07] - singer-songwriter
  • Jussi Reijonen: Sayr: Salt/Thirst (Unmusic) [10-24] - jazz [U]
  • Rubén Reinaldo: Fusión Olivica (Free Code Jazz) [06-04] - jazz [U]
  • Chen Reiss/Varduhi Abrahamyan/Daniel Behle/Tareq Nazmi/Audi Jugendchorakademie/Le Cercle de l'Harmonie/Jérémie Rhorer: Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Alpha) [01-10] - classical
  • Remedy [Thomas Heberer/Joe Fonda/Joe Hertenstein]: Hipp Hipp Hooray: Celebrating the Centennial of Jutta Hipp (Fundacja Słuchaj) [02-04] - jazz
  • Jane Remover: Revengeseekerz (DeadAir) [04-04] - hyperpop
  • Anaïs Reno: Lady of the Lavender Mist (Club44) [05-23] - jazz
  • Resavoir & Matt Gold: Horizon (International Anthem) [05-23] - jazz [B]
  • Revocation: New Gods, New Masters (Metal Blade) [09-26] - death metal
  • Retromorphosis: Psalmus Mortis (Season of Mist) [02-21] - metal
  • Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Serpentine (Cuneiform) [09-26] - jazz [U]
  • Jessie Reyez: Paid in Memories () [03-28] - alt-r&b
  • Graham Reynolds: Mountain (Fire) [03-21]
  • Gruff Rhys: Dim Probs (Rock Action) [09-12] - chamber pop
  • Rialto: Neon & Ghost Signs (Fierce Panda) [04-25]
  • Ribbon Skirt: Bite Down (Mint) [04-11] - indie rock
  • Marc Ribot: Map of a Blue City (New West) [05-23] - jazz [*]
  • Robin Richards: Taproots (Prah) [09-19]
  • Rex Richardson: Elegy (Summit) - jazz
  • Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway (Blue Arrow) [07-04] - folk [*]
  • Ron Rieder: Día Precioso! (Meson) [05-15] - jazz [*]
  • Dax Riggs: 7 Songs for Spiders (Fat Possum) [ 01-24] - stoner rock
  • Andrea Rinciari: Solo Sessions (Andrea Rinciari) - jazz
  • Rio Da Yung OG: Rio Free (Something Happen) () [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Jessica Risker: Calendar Year (Island House) [08-01] - indie folk
  • Claire Ritter: Songs of Lumiere (Zoning) [01-01] - jazz [A-]
  • Josh Ritter: I Believe in You, My Honeydew (Pytheas/Thirty Tigers) [09-12] - singer-songwriter
  • Ritual Ascension: Profanation of the Adamic Covenant (Sentient Ruin Laboratories) [ 02-28] - metal
  • Diego Rivera: West Circle (Posi-Tone) [04-25] - jazz
  • Rival Consoles: Landscape From Memory (Erased Tapes) [07-04] - IDM
  • Rivers of Nihil: Rivers of Nihil (Metal Blade) [05-30] - metal
  • Rizzle Kicks: Competition Is for Losers (BMG) [02-14] - UK hip-hop
  • Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali: At the Feet of the Beloved () [03-14] - qawwali
  • The Dave Robbins Big Band: Happy Faces (Cellar Music) - jazz
  • Joanne Robertson: Blurrr (AD 93) [09-19] - singer-songwriter
  • Sebastian Rochford: Finding Ways (Edition) [11-07] - jazz
  • Rocket: R Is for Rocket (Transgressive) [10-03] - indie rock
  • Rodeo Boys: Junior (Don Giovanni) [04-25]
  • Rick Roe: Tribute: The Music of Gregg Hill (Cold Plunge) [01-05] - jazz [**]
  • Joris Roelofs/Guus Janssen/Han Bennink: Rite of Spring (ICP) [05-08] - jazz
  • Grace Rogers: Mad Dogs () [05-16]
  • Paul Rogers: Peace and Happiness (Fundacja Sluchaj) - jazz
  • Ferdinando Romano: The Legends of Otranto (GleAM) - jazz
  • Rome Streetz & Conductor Williams: Trainspotting () [05-30] - hip-hop
  • Rent Romus/Tatsuya Nakatani: Uplift (Edgetone) [03-04] - jazz [**]
  • Røry: Restøration () [01-31] - emo-pop
  • Rosa Ensemble: Oddments (Cuneiform) [07-25] - contemporary classical
  • Alessi Rose: For Your Validation (AWAL -EP) [01-17] - indie pop
  • Charlie Rose/Silvan Joray/Paulo Almeida: Perceptions Trio: The Wicked Crew (Sense) [02-14] - jazz
  • Esther Rose: Want (New West) [05-02]
  • Rose City Band: Sol Y Sombra (Thrill Jockey) [01-24] - country rock
  • Rags Rosenberg: Song of the Bricoleur (Coyote Gulch) [09-19] - Americana
  • Dan Rosenboom: Coordinates (Orenda) [08-29] - jazz
  • Steve Rosenbloom Big Band: San Francisco 1948 (Glory) [09-01] - jazz [C]
  • Ted Rosenthal Trio: High Standards (TMR Music) [03-00] - jazz
  • Kurt Rosenwinkel & Jean-Paul Brodbeck: The Brahms Project (Heartcore) [05-02] - jazz
  • Leith Ross: I Can See the Future (Republic) [09-19] - indie folk
  • Steve Ross: Sings Sondheim (Harbinger) [11-07] - vocal jazz
  • Thom Rotella: Right Time Left (HighNote) [09-30] - jazz
  • Ned Rothenberg: Looms & Legends (Pyroclastic) [09-05] - jazz [A-]
  • Chris Rottmayer: Playing Favorites ( Pilars Jazz) [10-17] - jazz
  • Kyle Roussel: Church of New Orleans (self-released) [01-24] - jazz
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba/Chris Potter/Eric Harland/Larry Grenadier: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion) [07-11] - jazz [***]
  • Rumer & Redtenbacher's Funkestra: In Session (Ciancia Management) [01-31]
  • Runnner: A Welcome Kind of Weakness (Run for Cover) [08-29] - indie rock
  • Bobby Rush/Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Young Fashioned Ways (Deep Rush/Thirty Tigers) [03-21] - blues [**]
  • Rwake: The Retun of Magik (Relapse) [03-14] - metal
  • Saba & No I.D.: From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D. (From the Private Collection) [03-18] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Sacred Paws: Jump Into Life (Merge) [03-28]
  • Sverre Sæbo Quintet: If, However, You Have Not Lost Your Self Control (SauaJazz) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Matthieu Saglio/Camille Saglio: Al Alba (ACT Music) - jazz
  • Fatma Said: Lieder (Warner Classics) [02-07] - classical
  • Sailorr: From Florida's Finest (BuVision) [05-09] - r&b
  • Saint Etienne: International (Heavenly) [09-05] - dance-pop
  • Saint Levant: Love Letters () [02-14]
  • Bria Salmena: Big Dog (Sub Pop) [03-28]
  • Salami Rose Joe Louis: Lorings (Brainfeeder) [04-25] - indietronica
  • Samo Salamon/Ra Kalam Bob Moses Orchestra: Dream Suites Vol. 1 (Samo) [04-10] - jazz [A-]
  • Samo Salamon/Kevin Miller/Dan Blake: Burnt Pages () - jazz
  • Salin: Rammana (Salin) [03-29] - jazz
  • Felipe Salles: Camera Obscura (Tapestry) [06-06] - jazz [**]
  • Nathan Salsburg: Ipsa Corpora ()
  • Cécile McLorin Salvant: Oh Snap (Nonesuch) [09-19] - vocal jazz [B]
  • Samia: Bloodless (Grand Jury) [04-25] - pop [***]
  • Sanam: Sametou Sawtan (Constellation) [09-19]
  • Kathy Sanborn: Romance Language (Pacific Coast Jazz) [07-11] - jazz [*]
  • Brandon Sanders: Lasting Impression (Savant) [11-07] - jazz
  • Sandwell District: End Beginnings (Point of Departure) [03-28]
  • Moonchild Sanelly: Full Moon (Transgressive) [01-10] - alt-pop [A-]
  • Sanhedrin: Heat Lightning (Metal Blade) [03-14] - metal
  • John Santos Sextet & Friends: Horizontes (Machete) [01-01] - jazz
  • Saor: Amidst the Ruins (Season of Mist) [02-07] - metal
  • Gina Saputo: Daydream (GSJQ Productions) [04-18] - vocal jazz [**]
  • Sarcator: Swarming Angels & Flies (Century Media) [01-17] - metal
  • Michael Sarian: Esquina (Greenleaf Music) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Sasami: Blood on the Silver Screen (Domino) [03-07] - alt-pop
  • Elana Sasson: In Between () [04-18]
  • Masahiko Satoh & Roger Turner: AOI (Chap Chap) [02-21] - jazz
  • Satomimagae: Taba (RVNG) [04-25] - psychedelic folk
  • Sault: 10 (Forever Living Originals) [04-19] [*]
  • Anna B Savage: You & I Are Earth (City Slang) [01-24] - singer-songwriter
  • Savoir Faire: Hopeless Nostalgic () [01-31]
  • Say She She: Cut & Rewind (Drink Sum Wtr) [10-03] - funk
  • Scare: In the End, Was It Worth It? () [02-21] - metal
  • Scheen Jazzorkester & Fredrik Ljungkvist: Framåt! (Grong) [04-01] - jazz [***]
  • Isabel Schickenetanz: Seelentrost () [01-17] - classical
  • Rebecca Schiffman: Before the Future () [07-25]
  • Eric Schmitt: Wait for the Night (self-released) [04-11]
  • Matt Schofield: Many Moons Vol. 1 (Number 7) - jazz
  • Schola Antiqua of Chicago & Michael Alan Anderson: Liber ymnorum (Naxos) [03-28] - medieval
  • Frank Paul Schubert/Dieter Manderscheid/Martin Blume: Spindrift: Trio Studies (Jazz Haus Musik) [04-17] - jazz [***]
  • Stefan Schultze/Peter Ehwald/Tom Rainey: Public Radio (Jazzwerkstatt) [03-07] - jazz [**]
  • Jacques Schwarz-Bart/Gregory Privat: 22 (Buddham) - jazz
  • John Scofield/Dave Holland: Memories of Home (ECM) [11-21] - jazz
  • School Fair: Bird the Kid (self-released) [01-15] - post-punk
  • Scorpion Milk: Slime of the Times (Peaceville) [09-19] - metal
  • Bill Scorzari: Sidereal Days (Day 1) (self-released) [10-17] - singer-songwriter [U]
  • Mark Scott III: Soft Light (Miller Three Publishing) [02-21] - jazz [**]
  • Scour: Gold (Nuclear Blast) [02-21] - metal
  • Scowl: Are We All Angels (Dead Oceans) [ 04-04] - post-grunge [***]
  • Scree: August (Ruination) [08-22]
  • Marc Seales With Ernie Watts: People & Places (Origin) [08-22] - jazz [***]
  • Seasonal Falls: Improvised Sinking (-EP) [03-07] - indie folk
  • The Secret Trio: Old Friends (Anderson Audio) - jazz
  • Peggy Seeger: Teleology (Red Grape) [05-02]
  • Ty Segall: Possession (Drag City) [05-30] - glam rock
  • Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman (Polydor) [04-25] - alt-pop [***]
  • Yukari Sekiya: Duets Till Now, From Here (Umishima) [04-23] - jazz
  • Abel Selaocoe: Hymns of Bantu (Warner Classics) [02-21] - classical
  • Robert Sellier/Vanessa Waldhart/Yulia Sokolik/Romelia Lichtenstein/Michael Zehe/Oper Halle Chorus/Händelfestspielorchester Halle/Michael Hofstetter: Handel: Brockes Passion (Naxos) [03-28] - baroque
  • Mei Semones: Animaru (Bayonet) [05-02] - indie pop
  • Altin Sencalar: Unleashed (Posi-Tone) [03-28] - jazz [*]
  • Senso Di Voce: Through Itself (Sonic Transmissions) [09-12] - jazz
  • Trevor Sensor: A Few Tears of Eros (High Black Desert) [08-08]
  • Sara Serpa/Matt Mitchell: End of Something (Obliquity) [11-07] - jazz
  • Sevendials: A Crash Course in Catastrophe (Creation Youth/Cadiz Music) [04-11]
  • Dave Sewelson/Gabby Fluke-Mogul/George Cartwright/Anthony Cox/Steve Hirsh: Murmuration (Mahakala Music) [02-07] - jazz [**]
  • Ron Sexsmith: Hangover Terrace (Cooking Vinyl) [08-29]
  • Sextile: Yes, Please. (Sacred Bones)
  • Joseph Shabason/Nicholas Krgovich/Tenniscoats: Wao (Western Vinyl) [08-29]
  • Shadow of Delirium: Imperium Delirium (self-released) [06-27] - deathcore
  • Shallowater: God's Gonna Give You a Million Dollars (self-released) [09-05] - slowcore
  • Shame: Cutthroat (Dead Oceans) [09-05] - post-punk revival [B]
  • Anoushka Shankar: Chapter III: We Return to Light (Leiter) [03-14] - Indian classical
  • John Shannon: On a Day in Tarifa (Jazzbrook) [10-03] - jazz
  • Shapes Like People: Ticking Haze (Jangleshop) [03-07]
  • The Sharp Pins: Radio DDR (K/Perennial Death) [03-21] [*]
  • Jaleel Shaw: Painter of the Invisible (Changu) [07-11] - jazz [A-]
  • Ed Sheeran: Play (Gingerbread Man/Atlantic UK) [09-12] - pop
  • Joan Shelley: Real Warmth (No Quarter) [09-19] - folk
  • Blake Shelton: For Recreational Use Only (Wheelhouse) [05-09] - country
  • Shepherds of Cassini: In Thrall to Heresy (self-released) [02-21] - prog metal
  • Sherelle: With a Vengeance (Method 808) [04-09] - jungle/footwork [***]
  • Collin Sherman: Life Eats Life (Ex-tol) - jazz
  • Big A Sherrod: Torchbearer of the Clarksdale Sound [Listener's Circle Vol. 72] (Music Maker -EP) [06-01] - blues [**]
  • Adrian Sherwood: The Collapse of Everything (On-U Sound) [08-22]
  • Elijah Shiffer: City of Birds: Volume 2 (self-released) [05-10] - jazz [**]
  • Matthew Shipp: The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) [06-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Amanda Shires: Nobody's Girl (ATO) [09-26] - singer-songwriter
  • Patrick Shiroishi: Forgetting Is Violent (American Dream) [09-19] - jazz [*]
  • Alexei Shishkin: Good Times () [09-05]
  • Shlohmo: Repulsor (Wedidit) [10-31] - electronica
  • Julian Shore Trio: Sub Rosa (Chill Tone) [06-06] - jazz [**]
  • Lorna Shore: I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me (Century Media) [09-12] - deathcore
  • Kalie Shorr: My Type (Pound It Out Loud -EP) [08-01] - country [***]
  • Silas Short: Lushland (Stones Throw) [04-25]
  • Shout Section Big Band: Tatum's Swingin' Session (Shout Section Big Band/UFO) [09-10] - jazz
  • ShrapKnel & Mike Ladd: Saisir Le Feu (Fused Arrow) [08-05] - hip-hop [**]
  • Shrieking Demons: The Festering Dwellers (Transcending Obscurity) [01-31] - metal
  • Shrunken Elvis: Shrunken Elvis (Western Vinyl) [09-05]
  • Shura: I Got Too Sad for My Friends (PIAS) [05-30] - indie pop
  • Shygirl: Club Shy Room 2 (Because Music -EP) [02-28] - dance-pop [***]
  • The Sick Man of Europe: The Sick Man of Europe (The Leaf Label) [06-20] - minimal wave
  • Rich Siegel: It's Always Been You (self-released) [09-12] - jazz [U]
  • Eric Siereveld's Organic Quintet: Sweet William (Shifting Paradigm) - jazz
  • Sifters: Sifters (Obliquity) [10-24] - jazz
  • Sigh: I Saw the World's End - Hangman's Hymn MMXXV (Peaceville) [06-13] - symphonic black metal
  • Signs of the Swarm: To Rid Myself of Truth (Century Media) [08-22] - deathcore
  • Yotam Silberstein: Standards Vol. 2 (Jojo) [04-18] - jazz
  • Silkback: Attrition (Planet Mu) [07-18] - UK bass
  • Deborah Silver/The Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks! (Green Hill) [05-02] - jazz [B]
  • Jaysun Silver: No Excuses! (self-released) [02-11] - punk [*]
  • Silverstein: Antibloom (UNFD) [02-21] - post-hardcore
  • Silverstein: Pink Moon (UNFD) [09-12] - post-hardcore
  • Laura Ann Singh: Mean Reds (Out of Your Head) [10-24] - jazz
  • Jae Sinnett: The Blur the Lines Project (J-Nett Music) [01-06] - jazz [*]
  • Sokratis Sinopoulous/Yann Keerim: Topos (ECM) [10-17] - jaz
  • Alex Sipiagin: Daydream (SkyDeck Music) - jazz [B]
  • Alex Sipiagin: Reverberations (Criss Cross Jazz) [06-27] - jazz [*]
  • Sir Chloe: Swallow the Knife (ONErpm) [08-22] - indie pop
  • Sir Woman: If It All Works Out () [02-21]
  • Stefan Sirbu: Reverie (self-released) - jazz
  • Sister Ray: Believer (Royal Mountain) [04-04] - folk rock
  • Six Sex: X-Sex (Dale Play -EP) [03-06] - hard dance [A-]
  • Harri Sjöström: SoundScapes #4 Festival Berlin 2023 (Fundacja Słuchaj) [02-04] - jazz
  • Skaiwater: #mia (GoodTalk/Capitol -EP) [02-14] - hip-hop [*]
  • Edward Skeletrix: Museum Music (none) [01-01] - hip-hop
  • Skinner: New Wave Vaudeville (Faction) [01-10] - dance-punk
  • Tom Skinner: Kaleidoscopic Visions (International Anthem) [09-26] - jazz
  • Baiba Skride/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons: Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Deutsche Grammophon) [03-28] - classical
  • Skrillex: Fuck U Skrillex U Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!! <3 (Atlantic/Owsla) [04-01] - electronic [B-]
  • Skydaddy: Anchor Chains, Plane Motors & Train Whistles (-EP) [01-10] - chamber pop
  • Skullcap: Snakes of Albuquerque (Cuneiform) [05-30] - instrumental rock
  • Skunk Anansie: The Painful Truth (Boogooyamma/Frontiers) [05-23] - alt-rock
  • Chloe Slater: Love Me Please ( AWAL -EP) [02-04] - indie rock
  • Slaughter to Prevail: Grizzly (Sumerian) [07-18] - deathcore
  • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [05-30] - jazz [***]
  • Sleep Theory: Afterglow (Epitaph) [05-16] - alt-metal
  • Sleep Token: Even in Arcadia (RCA) [05-09] - alt-metal
  • Sleeper's Bell: Clover () [02-07]
  • Sleigh Bells: Bunky Becky Birthday Boy (Mom+Pop) [ 04-04] - noise pop
  • Slick Rick: Victory (Mass Appeal) [06-13] - hip-hop [***]
  • Slik Jack/Vincent Pryce: Everyone's Gotta Pryce () [01-22] - hip-hop
  • Slikback: Attrition (Planet Mu) [07-18] - UK bass [*]
  • Sloan: Based on the Best Seller (Yep Roc) [09-26]
  • Slow Crush: Thirst (Pure Noise) [08-29] - shoegaze
  • The Slow Readers Club: Out of a Dream (self-released) [03-14]
  • Slowly Slowly: Forgiving Spree (Nettwerk) [01-24] - power pop
  • Smerz: Big City Life (Escho) [05-23] - art pop
  • Smif-N-Wessun: Infinity () [02-21] - hip-hop
  • Adrian Smith & Richie Kotzen: Black Light/White Noise (BMG) [04-04]
  • Ches Smith: The Self (Tzadik) [03-01] - jazz [*]
  • Ches Smith: Clone Row (Otherly Love) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • ERR: stream no grade: Enoch Smith Jr.: The Book of Enoch Vol. 1
  • Enoch Smith Jr.: The Book of Enoch Vol. 1 (Misfitme Music) [11-07] - jazz
  • Junior Smith and His Remote Rangers: Junior Smith's Remote Round Up (self-released) [01-30] - jazz [*]
  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Gush (Nettwerk) [08-22] - glitch pop
  • Nell Smith: Anxious (Bella Union) [04-11] - indie pop
  • Peter Smith: Smitty Straightens Out (Real Magic) - jazz
  • Steve Smith and Vital Information: New Perspective (Drum Legacy) [02-07] - jazz [B]
  • Wadada Leo Smith/Sylvie Courvoisier: Angel Falls (Intakt) [10-03] - jazz [***]
  • Will Smith: Based on a True Story (Three Six Zero/NEON16/Slang Music) [03-28] - pop rap
  • SML: How You Been (International Anthem) [11-07] - jazz
  • Snapped Ankles: Hard Times Furious Dancing (The Leaf Label) [03-28]
  • Jim Snidero: Bird Feathers (Savant) [02-21] - jazz [***]
  • Ronald Snijders: Penta (Night Dreamer) - jazz
  • Snoop Dogg: Iz It a Crime? (Death Row/Gamma) [05-15] - hip-hop
  • Snõõper: Worldwide (Third Man) [10-03] - garage punk
  • Snowpoet: Heartstrings (Edition) [05-23] - jazz [*]
  • Soccer Committee: Eye (Morc) [09-24]
  • Sodom: The Arsonist (Steamhammer) [06-27] - metal
  • Claudia Solal & Benjamin Moussay: Punk Moon (Jazzdor) [03-07] - jazz
  • Solar Eyes: Live Freaky! Die Freaky! (Fierce Panda) [09-26]
  • Mark Solborg: Tungemål: Confluencia (ILK Music) [06-13] - jazz [*]
  • SOM: Let Some Light In (Pelagic) [03-14]
  • Sombr: I Barely Know Her (SMB/Warner) [08-22] - indie rock
  • Somebody's Child: When Youth Fades Away (Frenchkiss) [ 03-28]
  • Maria Somerville: Luster (4AD) [04-25] - dream pop
  • Something Blue: In the Beginning (Posi-Tone) [06-20] - jazz [*]
  • Sometime in February: Where Mountains Hide () [03-21] - metal
  • Son Lux: Risk of Make Believe (City Slang -EP) [01-17] - art pop
  • Songhoy Blues: Héritage (Transgressive) [01-17] - African [***]
  • Sonic Chambers Quartet: Kiss of the Earth (577) [04-11] - jazz
  • Sons of Ra: Standard Deviation (Free Electric Sound) [04-11] - jazz [*]
  • Sons of Sevilla: Street Light Moon () [09-05]
  • Soot Sprite: Wield Your Hope Like a Weapon (Specialist Subject) [05-16]
  • Soulwax: All Systems Are Lying (Deewee/Because Music) [10-17]
  • Tessa Souter: Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) [06-27] - vocal jazz [***]
  • Lucy Southern: Lucy Southern (self-released) - jazz
  • Southern Avenue: Family (Alligator) [04-25]
  • Sowulo: NIHT () [08-29] - dark folk
  • Sissy Spacek: Entrance (Shelter Press) [04-04]
  • Alan Sparhawk/Trampled by Turtles: Alan Sparhawk With Trampled by Turtles (Sub Pop) [05-30] - folk rock
  • Sparks: MAD! (Transgressive) [05-23] - art pop [B-]
  • Sparks: MADDER! (Transgressive -EP) [10-03] - art pop
  • Spellling: Portrait of My Heart (Sacred Bones) [03-28]
  • Alister Spence Trio: Gather (Alister Spence Music) - jazz
  • Nicky Spence/Julius Drake/Piatti Quartet: Faure: La Bonne Chanson & Other Songs (Hyperion) [02-28] - classical
  • Spill Tab: Angie (Because Music) [05-16] - indie pop
  • Luke Spiller: Love Will Probably Kill Me Before Cigarettes and Wind () [04-25]
  • Spinifex: Maxximus (Trytone) [11-14] - jazz
  • Spiritbox: Tsunami Sea (Rise/Pale Chord) [03-07] - alt-metal
  • SpiritWorld: Helldorado (Century Media) [03-21] - crossover thrash
  • Split Dogs: Here to Destroy (Venn) [02-28] - punk
  • Sports Team: Boys These Days (Distiller/Bright Antenna) [05-23] - indie rock
  • Konrad Sprenger: Set (Black Truffle) [01-17] - post-minimalism
  • Kandace Springs: Lady in Satin (SRP) [05-09] - jazz
  • Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band: Land of Hopes & Dreams (Columbia) [05-20] [A-]
  • Sprints: All That Is Over (City Slang/Sub Pop) [09-26] - garage punk [***]
  • Spunicunifait: Mozart: 6 String Quintets on Historical Instruments (Alpha) [09-05] - chamber music
  • Squid: Cowards (Warp) [02-07] - art rock [*]
  • Eric St-Laurent: El Choclo (Kazenmuzik) [05-27] - jazz
  • St. Lucia: Fata Morgana: Dawn (Nettwerk) [03-14]
  • Carmen Staaf: Sounding Line (Sunnyside) [09-19] - jazz [***]
  • Larry Stabbins/Mark Sanders: Cup & Ring (Discus Music) [05-23] - jazz [**]
  • Joe Stamm Band: Little Crosses () - country
  • Peter Stampfel, Friends & Daughters: Song Shards: Soul Jingles, Stoic Jingles, Vintage Jingles, Prayers and Rounds (Jalopy) [09-19] - folk [B-]
  • Lyn Stanley: Tribute to 1924 (A.T. Music) - vocal jazz
  • Ben Stapp: Uzmic Ro'Samg (577) [10-24] - jazz
  • Ringo Starr: Look Up (Roccabella/Lost Highway) [01-10] - country
  • Starset: Silos (Fearless) [09-12] - metalcore
  • Candi Staton: Back to My Roots (Beracah) [02-14] - soul
  • Steel Saddle: Steel Saddle () - country
  • Stef.in: Icterus II (Barnyard) [04-04] - jazz
  • Tamara Stefanovich: Organised Delirium ( PentaTone) [03-07] - classical
  • Jason Stein/Marilyn Crispell/Damon Smith/Adam Shead: Live at the Hungry Brain (Trost) [10-31] - jazz
  • Elias Stemeseder/Christian Lillinger + Craig Taborn: Umbra III: Live Setting (Intakt) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Dayna Stephens: Hopium (Contagious Music) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Dayna Stephens: Monk'D (Contagious Music) [10-10] - jazz
  • Stereolab: Instant Holograms on Metal Film (Duophonic/Warp) [05-23] - indietronica [*]
  • Quinn Sternberg: Pleasant Returns (Mind Beach) [04-04] - jazz
  • Laura Stevenson: Late Great (Really) [06-27] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Sultan Stevenson: El Roi (Edition) [03-28] - jazz [*]
  • Bill Stewart: Live at the Village Vanguard (Criss Cross Jazz) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • JC Stewart: Space Hurts (Stanley Park) [06-20] - singer-songwriter
  • Luke Stewart/Silt Rembrance Ensemble: The Order (Cuneiform) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Macie Stewart: When the Distance Is Blue (International Anthem) [03-21] - jazz [*]
  • Stick to Your Guns: Keep Planting Flowers (SharpTone) [01-10] - metalcore
  • Still in Love: Recovery Language (Church /Road) [09-05] - melodic hardcore
  • Stinky: Solace () [02-21] - hardcore
  • Sam Stoane: Tales of the Dark West (Cloverdale) [05-23] - country [A-]
  • Stormo: Tagli/Talee (Prosthetic) [03-21] - screamo
  • Nick Storring: Mirante (We Are Busy Bodies) [03-21] - electroacoustic
  • The Story So Far: I Want to Disappear in the USA () [08-29]
  • Bartees Strange: Horror (4AD) [02-14] - indie rock [*]
  • Will Stratton: Points of Origin (Bella Union) [03-07] - singer-songwriter
  • Strawberry Fuzz: Miller's Garage (CandyShop) [05-16]
  • Street Eaters: Opaque () [09-05]
  • Stress Positions: Human Zoo (Three One G) [05-16]
  • Caroline Strickland: Martha's Calling (-EP) [03-07]
  • Dave Stryker: Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies (Strikezone) [01-10] - jazz [B-]
  • Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives: Space Junk: 20 Superlative Instrumentals (Snakefarm) [04-25] - bluegrass
  • John Sturino: Blow Globe (Outside In Music) [06-06] - jazz
  • Suede: Antidepressants (BMG) [09-05] - alt-rock
  • Ray Suhy/Lewis Porter Quartet: What Happens Next (Sunnyside) [03-14] - jazz [*]
  • Sumac and Moor Mother: The Film (Thrill Jockey) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Johanna Summer/Jakob Manz: Cameo (ACT Music) - jazz
  • The Summer Set: Meet Me at the Record Store (LAB) [08-15]
  • Kevin Sun: Lofi at Lowlands (Endectomorph Music -EP) [05-09] - jazz [*]
  • Sun & Rain: Waterfall (Out of Your Head) [01-10] - jazz [**]
  • Sunflower Bean: Mortal Primetime (Lucky Number) [04-25] - indie pop
  • Superchunk: Songs in the Key of Yikes (Merge) [08-22] - indie rock [**]
  • Superheaven: Superheaven (Blue Grape Music) [04-18] - post-grunge
  • Surprise Chef: Superb (Big Crown) [05-16]
  • Masaaki Suzuki: Plays Bach Organ Works, Vol. 6 (BIS) [01-03] - classical
  • Swans: Birthing (Young God/Mute) [05-30] - post-rock [B]
  • Earl Sweatshirt: Live Laugh Love (Tan Cressida/Warner) [08-22] - hip-hop [*]
  • Sunny Sweeney: Rhinestone Requiem (Aunt Daddy) [08-01] - country [A-]
  • Emma Swift: The Resurrection Game (Tiny Ghost) [09-12] - folk pop
  • Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl (Republic) [10-03] - alt-pop
  • SWRM: Lights Off (Cuneiform) [07-25] - dark synth pop
  • Teddy Swims: I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2) (Warner) [01-24] - r&b
  • Antony Szmierek: Service Station at the End of the Universe (Mushroom Music) [02-28] - UK hip-hop [***]
  • Craig Taborn/Nels Cline/Marcus Gilmore: Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) [09-26] - jazz [A-]
  • Takács Quartet/Marc-Andre Hamelin: Dvorák & Price: Piano Quintets (Hyperion) [03-08] - chamber music
  • Aki Takase/Daniel Erdmann/Kazuhisa Uchihashi: Tanto (Innocent) [03-18] - jazz [***]
  • Hope Tala: Hope Handwritten (Jasmine Music) [02-28] - alt-r&b
  • Tamino: Every Dawn's a Mountain (Communion Group) [03-21] - chamber folk
  • Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Ki (Libra) [09-19] - jazz [**]
  • Simin Tander: The Wind (Jazzland) - jazz
  • Stefano Tanzi: Wrong Together (PlayCab) - jazz
  • Ela Faubert: Preguntas a Las 11:11 () [05-09]
  • John Taylor/Marc Johnson/Joey Baron: Tramonto (ECM) [09-19] - jazz
  • Laura Taylor: Think I'm in Love (Vegas) [08-18] - vocal jazz [*]
  • Teyana Taylor: Escape Room (Taylormade/Def Jam) [08-22] - alt-r&b [B]
  • Tayne: Love (Inside Job/MNRK) [01-31] - industrial
  • Claude Tchamitchian Quartet: Vortice (Emouvance) [01-04] - jazz
  • Tchotchke: Playin' Dumb (self-released) [09-05]
  • Teen Mortgage: Devil Ultrasonic Dream (Roadrunner) [04-11] - garage punk
  • Technopolice: Chien De La Casse (Howlin' Banana) [09-26]
  • Teitanblood: From the Visceral Abyss (Norma Evangelium Draboli) [03-28] - metal
  • Telepathy: Transmissions (Pelagic) [03-28]
  • Telethon: Suburban Electric () [03-06]
  • Kae Tempest: Self Titled (Island) [ 07-04] - UK hip-hop [A-]
  • Ten56.: IO (Out of Line) [09-05] - deathcore
  • Tennessee Jet: Ranchero () - country
  • Tennis: Face Down in the Garden (Mutually Detrimental) [04-25] - indie pop
  • Terra Twin: Static Separation (Dance to the Radio -EP) [02-06]
  • Terraplana: Natural () [03-11] - shoegaze
  • Tetrarch: The Ugly Side of Me (Napalm) [05-09] - nu metal
  • Tetsuo: Gossamer () [01-19] - hip-hop
  • Emma-Jean Thackray: Weirdo (Brownswood/Parlophone) [04-25] - neo-soul [B]
  • Thaba: December/Sedimonthole () [04-18]
  • Thala: Avalanche (Fire) [02-14] - dream pop
  • TheBabeGabe: Honeypop (No Label) [03-05] - mixtape
  • Thecityisours: Will You Still Love Me? () [01-31] - metal
  • Stephan Thelen: Worlds in Collision (RareNoise) [05-30] - prog
  • Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project: Mi Hogar II (self-released) [03-07] - jazz
  • These New Puritans: Crooked Wing (Domino) [05-23] - art pop [*]
  • Thin Lear: A Shadow Waltzed Itself (-EP) [03-07]
  • Ben Thomas Tango Project: The Hat With the Grin and the Chuckle (Origin) [08-22] - jazz [**]
  • Pat Thomas: ود ود (Wadud/Most Loving) (Nyahh) [09-18] - jazz [***]
  • Pat Thomas: Hikmah (TAO Forms) [11-07] - jazz [U]
  • Patricia Thomson: Your Love (PT Designs Productions) [10-01] - jazz [U]
  • Isaiah J. Thompson: The Book of Isaiah: Modern Jazz Ministry () [J|jazz] - 06-06
  • Thor & Friends: Heathen Spirituals (Joyful Noise) [05-16] - post-minimalism
  • Ross Thorn: Ross Thorn Tries Fitting In (Casa De Copas) [08-08] - bluegrass [***]
  • Henry Threadgill: Listen Ship (Pi) [09-26] - jazz [U]
  • Three Days Grace: Alienation (RCA) [08-22] - alt-metal
  • Three-Layer Cake: Sounds the Color of Grounds (Otherly Love) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Third Coast Percussion: Glass: Aguas da Amazonia () [01-10] - minimalism
  • The Third Mind: Live Mind (Yep Roc) [02-14] - Americana [**]
  • The Third Mind: Right Now! (Yep Roc) [09-19] - Americana [***]
  • Omar Thomas Large Ensemble: Griot Songs (Omar Thomas Music) [02-07] - jazz [*]
  • Pat Thomas: The Bliss of Bliss (Konnekt) [05-29] - jazz [***]
  • Ross Thorn: Fitting In () [08-08] - Americana
  • Thornhill: Bodies (UNFD) [04-04] - alt metal
  • Those Damn Crows: God Shaped Hole (Earache) [04-11] - alt-rock
  • Thrice: Horizons/West (Epitaph) [10-03] - post-hardcore
  • Throwing Muses: Moonlight Concessions (Fire) [03-14] - alt/indie
  • Diala Thukzin: 031 Studio Camp 2.0 (Dlala) [04-25] - African [***]
  • Thundermother: Dirty & Divine (AFM) [02-07] - hard rock
  • Thurnin: Harmr (Prophecy Productions) [03-14] - dark folk
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra: I'm Done With Self Care, It's Time for Others' Harm (Prosthetic) [05-23] - deathcore
  • Steve Tibbetts: Close (ECM) [10-24] - jazz
  • Tiberius: Singing for Company (self-released) [03-21] - metal
  • Yann Tiersen: Rathlin From a Distance (Mute) [04-04]
  • Tiktaalika: Gods of Pangaea (InsideOut) [03-14] - metal
  • Tinn Parrow & Company: My Gynmasium Museum (Cuneiform) [art rock]
  • Titanic: Hagen (Unehard of Hope) [09-05] - art pop
  • Anna Tivel: Animal Poem (Fluff & Gravy) [08-29]
  • Tobacco City: Horses (Scissor Tail Editions) [03-07] - country rock
  • Malcolm Todd: Malcolm Todd (Columbia) [04-04] - singer-songwriter
  • Tokyo Tea Room: No Rush (Nice Guys) [01-24] - bedroom pop
  • Joona Toivanen Trio: Gravity (We Jazz) [01-31] - jazz [**]
  • Tokimonsta: Eternal Reverie (Young Art) [03-07] - deep house
  • Tómarúm: Beyond Obsidian Euphoria (Prosthetic) [04-04] - metal
  • MF Tomlinson: Die to Wake Up From a Dream (Prah) [07-11] - art rock
  • Tomorrow X Together: The Star Chapter: Together (Bit Hit/HYBE) [07-21] - K-pop
  • Zach Top: Ain't in It for My Health (Leo33) [08-29] - country [**]
  • TOPS: Bury the Key (Ghostly) [08-22] - indie pop
  • David Torn: Peace Upon You (self-released) [03-05] - jazz
  • Torso: Annihilation Day () [08-29] - metal
  • Samba Touré: Baarakelaw (Glitterbeat) [01-24] - African
  • Mitch Towne: Refuge (Cross Towne) [04-04] - jazz [*]
  • AJ Tracey: Don't Die Before You're Dead (Revenge) [06-13] - UK hip-hop
  • Transcendence: Music of Pat Metheny (FMR) [07-01] - jazz [U]
  • Penelope Trappes: A Requiem (One Little Independent) [04-04]
  • Traxman: Da Mind of Traxman Vol. 3 (Planet Mu) [02-07] - footwork
  • Tremonti: The End Will Show Us How (Napalm) [01-10] - metal
  • Treverket: Et Bedre Sted (Eget Selskap) [01-17] - jazz
  • TGrinary System: The Hard Machine (Cuneiform) [10-31] - jazz
  • Trio Glossia: Trio Glossia (Sonic Transmissions) [02-07] - jazz [***]
  • Triology Featuring Scott Hamilton: The Slow Road (Cellar Music Group) [04-11] - jazz [**]
  • TripleS: Assemble25 (Modhaus) [05-12] - K-pop
  • Tropical Fuck Storm: Fairyland Codex (Fire)
  • Tropos: Switches (Endectomorph Music) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Robin Trower: Come and Fine Me (Provogue) [05-16] - blues rock
  • Samson Tsoy: Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni, Reger (Linn) [02-14] - classical
  • Premik Russell Tubbs/Margee Minier-Tubbs: Oneness-World (Margetoile) [08-01] - jazz [*]
  • Premik Russell Tubbs & Margee Minier-Tubbs: The Bells (Margetoile) [10-15] - jazz [U]
  • The Tubs: Cotton Crown (Trouble in Mind) [03-07] - jangle pop [*]
  • Avery Tucker: Paw () [10-10]
  • Fletcher Tucker: Kin (Gnome Life) [08-15]
  • Tune-Yards: Better Dreaming (4AD) [06-16] [*]
  • Tune-Yards: Tell the Future With Your Body (4AD -EP) [09-12]
  • Tunng: Love You All Over Again (Full Time Hobby) [01-24] - folktronica
  • Turin Brakes: Spacehopper (Cooking Vinyl) [05-23]
  • Mark Turner: We Raise Them to Lift Their Heads (Loveland Music) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Mark Turner: Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) [10-10] - jazz [U]
  • Turnpike Troubadours: The Price of Admission (Bossier City) [04-11] - country [*]
  • Turnstile: Never Enough (Roadrunner) [06-06] [*]
  • Molly Tuttle: So Long Little Miss Sunshine (Nonesuch) [08-15] - bluegrass [**]
  • Jeff Tweedy: Twilight Override (dBpm) [09-26] - singer-songwriter
  • Twenty One Pilots: Breach (Fueled by Ramen) [09-12] - alt/indie
  • William Tyler: Time Indefinite (Psychic Hotline) [04-25] - new age [*]
  • Tyler, the Creator: Don't Tap the Glass (Columbia) [07-21] - hip-hop [*]
  • U.e.: Hometown Girl ( 28912) [01-16] - ambient
  • U.S. Girls: Scratch It (4AD) [06-20] - soft rock
  • Kali Uchis: Sincerely (Capitol) [05-09] - pop soul [**]
  • UFO Fev & Body Bag Ben: Thousand Yard Stare (1332) [03-21] - hip-hop [**]
  • Gregory Uhlmann/Josh Johnson/Sam Wilkes: Uhlmann/Johnson/Wilkes (International Anthem) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Ukandanz: Evil Plan (Compagne 4000 -EP) [04-04]
  • Julia Úlehla and Dálava: Understories (Pi) [05-02] - jazz [**]
  • Matt Ulery: Mother Harp (Woolgathering) - jazz
  • Um, Jennifer?: Um Comma Jennifer Question Mark (Final Girl) [04-25] - indie rock [**]
  • uMaNg & B.B.Z. Darney: Monu-mental () [07-11] - hip-hop
  • Akira Umeda & Metal Preyers: Clube Da Mariposa Mórbida (Nyege Nyege Tapes) [07-11] - world/electronic [*]
  • Uncle Murda: Murda He Wrote () [01-24] - hip-hop
  • Uncle Strut: Home at Last () [05-16]
  • Underoath: The Place After This One (MNRK Heavy) [03-28] - metalcore
  • Unity Quartet [Helio Alves/Guilherme Monteiro/Gili Lopes/Alex Kautz]: Samba of Sorts (Sunnyside) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • University: Yes (-EP) [09-26]
  • University of Nevada Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble 1: Let the Good Times Roll (Vegas) [03-01] - jazz [**]
  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra: IC-02 Bogotá (Jagjaguwar) [03-28] - neo-psychedelia
  • UNLV Jazz Ensemble 1: Double or Nothing (Vegas) [08-25] - jazz [B]
  • Unreqvited: A Pathway to the Moon (Propecy Productions) [02-07] - blackgaze
  • The Untamed Youth: Git Up & Go (Hi-Tide/Nu-Tone) [06-27]
  • Upchuck: I'm Nice Now (Domino) [10-03] - garage punk
  • Urn: Demon Steel (Osmose Productions) [03-28]
  • Us3: Soundtrack (Us3) [08-22] - pop jazz [B]
  • Hüma Utku: Dracones () [04-04]
  • Vacuous: In His Blood (Relapse) [02-28] - metal
  • Joey Valence & Brae: Hyperyouth () [08-15] - hip-hop
  • Valerie June: Owls, Omens and Oracles (Concord) [04-11]
  • Valiant: Prove Them Wrong () [05-29]
  • Sharon Van Etten: Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar) [02-07] - new wave [*]
  • Jeroen Van Herzeele & Stéphane Galland: Songshan () [07-04] - alt-jazz
  • Jordan VanHemert: Survival of the Fittest (Origin) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Gino Vannelli: The Life I Got (To My Most Beloved) () [02-07]
  • Chris Varga: Breathe (Calligram) [03-07] - jazz [*]
  • Gizmo Varillas: Into the Night () [01-17]
  • Pictoria Vark: Nothing Sticks (03-21) [Get Better] - indie rock
  • Neton Vega: Mi Vida Mi Muerte () [02-14] - Latin
  • Suzanne Vega: Flying With Angels (Cooking Vinyl) [05-02] - singer-songwriter
  • Vega7 the Ronin/Machacha: The Ghost Orchid (Copenhagen Crates) [03-21] - hip-hop [***]
  • The Veils: Asphodels (V2) [01-24] - chamber pop
  • Inés Velasco: A Flash of Cobalt Blue (self-released) [06-06] - jazz [*]
  • The Velveteers: A Million Knives (Easy Eye Sound) [02-14] - alt-rock
  • Venturing: Ghostholding (DeadAir) [02-14] - shoegaze
  • Milan Verbist Trio: Time Change (Origin) [09-19] - jazz [*]
  • Martina Verhoeven/Luis Lopes/Dirk Serries: Invincible Time (Raw Tonk) [03-21] - jazz [**]
  • The Vernon Spring: Under a Familiar Sun (OPIA) [05-09]
  • Viagra Boys: Viagr Aboys (Shrimptech/YEAR0001) [04-25] - art punk [***]
  • Vibration Black Finger: Everybody Cryin' Mercy (Enid) [02-07] - jazz [***]
  • Vicious Rumors: The Devil's Asylum (Steamhammer) [08-29] - metal
  • Mathilde Grooss Viddal/Friensemblet: Tri Vendur Blés Ho I Den Høgaste Sky (Losen) - jazz [*]
  • Vildhjarta: + Där Skogen Sjunger Under Evighetens Granar + (Century Media) [05-30] - metal
  • The Vintage Caravan: Portals (Napalm) [09-26] - hard rock
  • Vintersong: Vattenkrafternas Spel (Hammerheart) [ 09-20] - prog metal
  • Vincenzo Virgillito: Precondition (self-released) [01-01] - jazz [B]
  • Jimmy Vivino: Gonna Be 2 of Those Days (Gulf Coast) [02-14] - blues
  • Vlure: Escalate (Music for Nations) [09-26] [**]
  • Voice Actor & Squu: Lust (1) (Stroom) [01-14] - ambient dub
  • Joni Void: Every Life Is a Light (Constellation) [03-14]
  • Voidfallen: The Rituals of Resilience () [02-21] - metal
  • Steve Von Till: Alone in a World of Wounds (Neurot) [05-16]
  • Vukovi: My God Has Got a GUn (SharpTone) [01-24] - alt-metal
  • Vulture Feather: It Will Be Like Now (Felte) [02-14] - post-punk
  • Vundabar: Surgery and Pleasure (Loma Vista) [03-07] - dance-punk
  • Leon Vynehall: In Daytona Yellow (Studio Ooze) [10-03] - deep house
  • Chris Wabich: 1978 (Steep) (ADW) [08-01] - jazz [***]
  • Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band: Treasury Volume 2 (Turtle Bay) [05-30] - jazz [A-]
  • Kelsey Waldon: Every Ghost (Oh Boy) [06-20] - country [***]
  • Michael Waldrop: Native Son (Origin) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Morgan Wade: The Party Is Over (Recovered) (Ladylike/Sony) [08-01] - country [***]
  • Joshua Ray Walker: Tropicana (Thirty Tigers) [06-13] - country
  • Morgan Wallen: I'm the Problem (Big Loud/Republic/Mercury) [05-16] - country
  • Jeff Walton: Pack Animals (Jules) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Sunny War: Armageddon in a Summer Dress (New West) [02-21] - alt-country [*]
  • The War and Treaty: Plus One (Mercury/UMG Nashville) [02-14] - country [B-]
  • Warbringer: Wrath and Ruin (Napalm) [03-14] - metal
  • Josh Ward: Same Ol' Cowboy, Different Rodeo () - country
  • Wardruna: Birna (Music for Nations/Sony) [01-24] - ritual ambient
  • Dean Wareham: That's the Price of Loving Me (Carpark) [03-28] - singer-songwriter [A-]
  • Kamasi Washington: Lazarus [Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack] (Milan) [04-13] - jazz [B]
  • Julian & Roman Wasserfuhr: Safe Place (ACT Music) - jazz
  • Water Damage: Instruments (12XU) [05-16]
  • Water From Your Eyes: It's a Beautiful Place (Matador) [08-22] [A-]
  • The Waterboys: Life, Death and Dennis Hopper (Sun) [04-04]
  • WateRR & Machacha: Almighty II () [03-14] - hip-hop
  • Reggie Watkins: Rivers (BYNK) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Cassie Watson Francillon & Sasha Masakowski: Suite (self-released) [02-25] - jazz
  • Patrick Watson: Uh Oh (Secret City) [09-26]
  • Chasen Wayne: Corpus () - country
  • WDR Big Band: Bluegrass (MCG Jazz) [03-01] - jazz [*]
  • We Came as Romans: All Is Beautiful . . . Because We're Doomed (Sharp Tone) [08-22] - alt-metal
  • The Weather Station: Humanhood (Fat Possum) [01-17] - art pop [*]
  • Weatherday: Hornet Disaster () [03-19] - emo
  • Weaving: Webs (Glamour Gowns) [03-14] - singer-songwriter
  • Webber/Morris Big Band: Unseparate (Out of Your Head) [09-26] - jazz [***]
  • Wednesday: Bleeds (Dead Oceans) [09-19] - alt/indie [A-]
  • Cory Weeds: Dig Weeds! (Cohearent) [04-18] - jazz
  • The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow (XO/Republic) [01-31] - synthpop
  • Tom Weeks: Paranoid II (Wolfsblood) [02-14] - jazz
  • Sam Weinberg Trio: Of Peeling Passages: Live at Sisters (Donaldson) [04-04] - jazz
  • Dan Weiss Quartet: Unclassified Affections (Pi) [06-06] - jazz [***]
  • Orion Weiss: Arc III (First Hand) [02-21] - classical
  • Matthew Welch/Dan Plonsey: Eudimorphodon (Kotekan) [05-12] - jazz
  • Paul Weller: Find El Dorado (Parlophone) [07-25] - folk rock
  • Jesse Welles: Middle (self-released) [02-21] - folk rock [**]
  • Justin Wells: Cynthiana () - country
  • Welly: Big in the Suburbs (Vertex Music) [03-21]
  • Westside Gunn: 12 () [02-14] - hip-hop
  • Wet Leg: Moisturizer (Domino) [07-11] - indie rock [**]
  • Tucker Wetmore: What Not To (UMG Nashville) [04-25] - country
  • Judy Wexler: No Wonder (Jewel City Jazz) - vocal jazz
  • Whatever the Weather: Whatever the Weather II (Ghostly International) [03-14] - ambient
  • Kenny Wheeler Legacy: Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music) [01-31] - jazz
  • Wheelhouse: House and Home (Aerophonic) [07-22] - jazz [A-]
  • Rodney Whitaker: Mosaic: The Music of Gregg Hill (Origin) [02-28] - jazz [***]
  • J. White: Serenade () [10-03] - jazz
  • White Reaper: Only Slightly Empty (Blue Grape Music) [09-26]
  • Whitechapel: Hymns in Dissonance (Metal Blade) [03-07] - death metal
  • Whitehall: National Finals Rodeo (ENCI) [09-05]
  • Whitney K: Bubble () [09-12]
  • Hailey Whitters: Corn Queen (Pigasus/Big Loud) [06-06] - country [A-]
  • Wicca Phase Springs Eternal: Mossy Oak Shadow (Run for Cover) [09-19] - indie folk
  • Chip Wickham: The Eternal Now (Gondwana) [09-05]
  • Tobias Wiklund: Inner Flight Music (Stunt) - jazz
  • Wilco: Live (Orange) (Legacy) [05-16] - rock
  • David Wilcox: The Way I Tell the Story () [08-15] - folk
  • Wild Iris Brass Band: Way Up (Ear Up) [07-25] - jazz [*]
  • Kim Wilde: Closer (Wildeflower/Cherry Red) [01-31] - synthpop
  • Wilder Maker: The Streets Like Beds Still Warm (Western Vinyl) [09-19]
  • The Wildhearts: Satanic Rites of the Wildhearts () [03-07] - hard rock
  • The Wildwoods: Dear Meadowlark () [04-11]
  • John Andrew Wilhite: Bristol Silence () [05-09] - jazz
  • Wayne Wilkinson: Holly Tunes (self-released) [11-07] - jazz [U]
  • Evan Williams: The View From Halfway Down () [04-11]
  • Hayley Williams: Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party (Post Atlantic) [08-28] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Kathryn Williams: Mystery Park (One Little Independent) [09-26]
  • Marlon Williams: Te Whare Tiwekaweka () [04-04] - soft rock
  • Saul Williams: Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople (International Anthem) [08-28] - jazz [**]
  • Simón Willson: Bet: Live at Ornithology (Endectomorph Music) [02-28] - jazz [***]
  • Simón Willson: Feel Love (Endectomorph Music) [09-25] - jazz [**]
  • Anthony Wilson Nonet: House of the Singing Blossoms (Sam First) [08-29] - jazz
  • Steven Wilson: The Overview (Fiction) [03-14] - prog rock [*]
  • Gaia Wilmer & Ra Kalam Bob Moses: Dancing With Elephants (Sunnyside) [06-20] - jazz [*]
  • Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus: The Children & the Warlock (Cellar Music Group) [04-25] - jazz
  • Sarah Wilson: Incandescence (Brass Tonic) [07-18] - jazz [*]
  • Winona Fighter: My Apologies to the Chief (Rise) [02-14] - pop punk
  • Winter: Adult Romantix (Winspear) [08-22] - shoegaze
  • Jessica Winter: My First Album (Lucky Number) [07-11] - alt-pop [**]
  • Eli Winter: A Trick of the Light (Three Lobed) [05-02] - jazz
  • Christian Winther: Sculptures From Under the City Ice (Earthly Habit) [02-07] - singer-songwriter [**]
  • Witch: Sogolo (Desert Daze Sound) [06-13] - psychedelic rock
  • Witch Post: Beast (-EP) [04-18]
  • Witchcraft: Idag (Heavy Psych Sounds) [05-23] - psych rock
  • Denison Witmer: Anything at All (Asthmatic Kitty) [02-14] - indie folk
  • Jim Witzel: Very Early: Remembering Bill Evans (Joplin & Sweeney) [08-15] - jazz
  • Julia Wolf: Pressure (Girls in Purgatory) [05-23] - glitch pop
  • Patrick Wolf: Crying the Neck (Apport) [06-13] - chamber folk
  • Wolf Alice: The Clearing (Columbia/RCA) [08-22]
  • Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton: Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (ESP-Disk) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Wolfacejoeyy: Cupid () [01-08] - hip-hop
  • Michael Wolff Trio: Sunny Day (Sunnyside) [09-12] - jazz
  • Michael Wollny Trio: Living Ghosts (ACT Music) [02-28] - jazz [***]
  • The Wombats: Oh! The Ocean (AWAL) [02-14] - indie rock
  • Carolyn Wonderland: Truth Is (Alligator) [05-16] - blues [**]
  • Dustin Wong: Gloria (self-released) [04-01] - ambient
  • Billy Woods: Golliwog (Backwoodz Studioz) [05-09] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Seth Parker Woods/Katinka Kleijn/Cory Smythe/Claire Chase: Ubique (Sono Luminus) [02-28] - modern classical
  • Brandon Woody: For the Love of It All (Blue Note) [05-09] - jazz [**]
  • Landon Wordswell & Es-K: Remember to Breathe () [02-21] - hip-hop
  • The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die: Epitaph (08-22) [M|alt-metal]
  • Wrath of Logarius: Crown of Mortis (Season of Mist) [04-04] - metal
  • Wrekmeister Harmonies: Flowers in the Spring (Thrill Jockey) [02-21] - drone metal
  • Wren: Black Rain Falls (Church Road) [02-21] - post-hardcore
  • Wrens: Half of What You See (Out of Your Head) [11-21] - jazz
  • Wretch 32: Home? (AWAL) [05-02] - UK hip-hop [**]
  • Wu-Tang X Mathematics: Black Samson, the Bastard Swordsman (36 Chambers/DNA Music) [04-12] - hip-hop [A-]
  • Clay Wulbrecth: The Clockmaster (Instru Dash Mental) [05-02] - jazz [*]
  • Sven Wunder: Daybreak (Piano Piano) [09-26]
  • Jacob Wutzke: You Better Bet (Cellar Music Group) - jazz
  • Kate Wyatt: Murmurations () [10-10] - jazz
  • Wyatt E.: Zamā Ultu Qeber Ziqquratu, Pt. 1 (Heavy Psych Sounds) [01-10] - doom metal
  • Xzibit: Kingmaker () [05-16] - hip-hop
  • Y: Y (Hideous Mink -EP) [04-04] - dance-punk [**]
  • Tal Yahalom: Mirror Image (Adhyâropa) [03-21] - jazz
  • Haewon Yang: Plays the Piano Works of Harry Bulow () [01-01]
  • Jeong Lim Yang: Synchronicity (Sunnyside) [01-31] - jazz [***]
  • Savina Yannatou/Barry Guy/Ramon Lopez/Floros Floridis: Kouarteto (Maya) - jazz
  • Savina Yannatou Primavera en Salonico and Larnia Bedioui: Watersong (ECM) [04-11] - jazz
  • John Yao and His 17 Piece Instrument: Points in Time (See Tao) [07-11] - big band [**]
  • Yard: Yard (self-released -EP) [05-13]
  • Raed Yassin: Phantom Orchestra (Morphine) [02-24] - jazz
  • Yoko Yates: Eternal Moments (Banka) [09-19] - vocal jazz [B]
  • Yawning Balch: Volume Three () [02-21] - psychedelic rock
  • Trisha Yearwood: The Mirror () - country
  • Yeule: Evangelic Girl Is a Gun (Ninja Tune) [05-30] - indietronica [**]
  • YHWH Nailgun: 45 Pounds (AD 93) [03-21] - art punk [A-]
  • Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek: Yarin Yoksa = If There Is No Tomorrow (Big Crown) [03-14] - Anatolian rock
  • Moses Yoofee Trio: MYT (Leiter) [02-27] - fusion
  • James Yorkston: Songs for Nina and Johanna (Domino) [08-22] - folk
  • Otomo Yoshihide: Plays Christian Marclay (Little Stone) [02-19] - jazz
  • Motoharu Yoshizawa/Kim Dae Hwan: Way of the Breeze (1993, NoBusiness) [05-02] - jazz [A-]
  • You, Infinite: You, Infinite (Pelagic) [02-28] - post-rock
  • Jubal Lee Young: Squirrels (Reconstruction) [08-15] - alt-country [A-]
  • Lola Young: I'm Only F**king Myself (Island/Day One) [09-19] - indie pop
  • Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts: Big Change Is Coming (Reprise) - rock
  • Neil Young: Coastal: The Soundtrack (Reprise) [04-18] - singer-songwriter [*]
  • Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts: Talkin to the Trees (The Other Shoe/Reprise) [06-13] - country rock [A-]
  • Young Knives: Landfill (Gadzook) [01-24] - art rock
  • The Young Mothers: Better If You Let It (Sonic Transmissions) [02-21] - jazz-hop [**]
  • Young Nudy: Paradise (RCA) [08-08] - hip-hop
  • Young Widows: Power Sucker (Temporary Residence) [03-21] - noise rock
  • Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Jazz Is Dead 22: Ebo Taylor (Jazz Is Dead) [01-31] - jazz [*]
  • Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead 23: Hyldon (Jazz Is Dead) [04-04] - jazz
  • Adrian Younge: Something About April III (Jazz Is Dead) [04-18] - jazz
  • Brandee Younger: Gadabout Season (Impulse!) [06-13] - jazz [*]
  • Your Furture Ghost: Impatient for the Dream () [07-25]
  • Your Heterosexual Violence: Some People Have Too Much to Say (Trapped Animal) [09-26]
  • Dhafer Youssef: Shiraz (ACT Music) [11-14] - jazz
  • Youth Lagoon: Rarely Do I Dream (Fat Possum) [02-21] - indie pop
  • Youth Sector: Pop Couture (Dance to the Radio) [09-19]
  • YT: Oi! (G2G) [03-28] - UK hip-hop
  • Yttling Jazz: Illegal Hit (Year0001) - J\jazz
  • Yukimi & Little Dragon: For You (Ninja Tune) [03-28] - neo-soul
  • Yung Lean: Jonatan (World Affairs) [05-02] - art pop
  • Zatokrev: Bring Mirrors to the Surface (Pelagic) [08-29] - sludge metal
  • Zayok: In Elsewhere () [09-17] - glitch pop
  • Thalia Zedek: The Boat Outside Your Window (Thrill Jockey) [05-23] - alt-rock
  • Warren Zeiders: Relapse, Lies & Betrayal (Warner) [03-14] - country
  • Denny Zeitlin: With a Song in My Heart (Sunnyside) [06-06] - jazz
  • ZelooperZ & Real Bad Man: Dear Psilocybin () [02-07] - hip-hop
  • Miguel Zenón Quartet: Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) [08-29] - jazz [A-]
  • Zerobaseone: Blue Paradise (Wakeone -EP) [02-24] - K-pop
  • Alex Zethson/Johan Jutterström: It Could/If I (Astral Spirits/Thanatosis) [04-11] - jazz
  • Bailey Zimmerman: Different Night Same Rodeo () - country
  • Carlos "Zingaro"/Flo Stoffner/Fred Lonberg-Holm/João Madeira: Na Parede (4DaRecord) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Carlos "Zingaro"/João Madeira: Arcada Pendular (4DaRecord) [07-11] - jazz [A-]
  • Zinoleesky: Gen Z () [04-25]
  • Marina Zispin: Now You See Me, Now You Don't (Scenic Route) [03-07] - coldwave
  • James Zito: Zito's Jump (self-released) [04-15] - jazz [*]
  • Zora: Belladonna (Get Better) [01-17]
  • John Zorn & JACK Quartet: The Complete String Quartets (Tzadik) [01-24] - classical
  • Nicole Zuraitis: Live at Vic's (La Reserve) - jazz
  • Zurhub [Mattan Klein/Ezequiel Hezi Joit]: Countryside Motorways (Origin) [08-22] - jazz [B]
  • Zzzahara: Spiral Your Way Out (Lex) [01-10] - dream pop

Reissues, Etc.

  • Pepper Adams: Pepper Adams Quintet (1957, Gammaut) [10-24] - jazz
  • Rashied Ali/Leroy Jenkins: Swift Are the Winds of Life [Expanded Edition] (1975, Survival) [01-31] - jazz [A-]
  • Tony Allen & La Bogotá Orquesta Afrobeat: La BOA Meets Tony Allen (2011, Comet) [02-02] - afrobeat
  • Ame Son: Catalyse (1970, BYG Actuel) [04-25] - jazz
  • Ant: Collection of Sounds Vol. 4 () [04-04] - hip-hop
  • Avicii: Avicii Forever (Universal Music AB) [05-16] - house
  • Albert Ayler Trio: Prophecy Live First Visit (1964, Ezz-Thetics) [02-28] - jazz
  • Balloons for the Dog: Wicked Forms of Old Snow (1977-81, Cuneiform) [07-25] - art rock
  • Bar-B-Q Killers: Part 1: The Last Shit (Chunklet Industries -EP) [06-01] - garage rock [B]
  • Gato Barbieri: Standards Lost and Found 2 (1968, Red) [05-02] - jazz [***]
  • Kenny Barron: Sunset to Dawn (1973, Time Traveler) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • David Binney: Grains of Light (2009-13, Mythology) [04-22] - jazz
  • Blackbyrds: City Life (1975, Craft/Jazz Dispensary) [07-11] - jazz [*]
  • Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Strasbourg 82 (Gearbox) [10-11] - jazz
  • Paul Bley: Ramblin' (1966, BYG Actuel) [03-28] - jazz
  • Scrapper Blackwell: Mr. Scrapper's Blues (1962, Craft) [03-25] - blues [A-]
  • The Bitter Ends: The Bitter Ends (Trouble in River City) [05-01] - post-punk [A-]
  • Paul Bley: Open, to Love (1973, ECM) - jazz [*]
  • Paul Bley Trio: Floater & Syndrome: The Upright Piano Sessions Revisited (1962-63, Ezz-Thetics) [03-12] - jazz
  • Borghesia: Clones (1984, Dark Entries) [05-07] - electronic [**]
  • David Bowie: I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016) (Parlophone) [09-12] - art rock
  • Charles Brackeen: Rhythm X (1968, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Johnny Bragg: Let Me Dream On (Org Music) [03-07] - r&b [*]
  • The Brass Company: Colors (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Anthony Braxton: B-X0 N0-47A (1969, BYG) [05-16] - jazz [**]
  • Anthony Braxton: Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) [06-04] - jazz
  • Jeff Bridges: Slow Magic, 1977-1978 (Light in the Attic) [04-11]
  • Jakob Bro/Paul Motian/Bill Frisell/Lee Konitz/Ben Street: Balladeering (2008, Loveland Music) [03-06] - jazz
  • Roy Brooks: The Free Slave (1970, Time Traveler) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • Peter Brötzmann Trio: Hurricane (Old Heaven Books) [03-24] - jazz [***]
  • Buckingham Nicks: Buckingham Nicks (Rhino) [09-19] - pop rock
  • Master Wilburn Burchette: Master Wilburn Burchette's Psychic Meditation Music (1974, Numero Group) [06-13] - experimental [*]
  • Dave Burrell/Sam Woodyard: The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness) [05-02] - jazz [A-]
  • Kenny Burrell With Art Blakey: On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters (1959, Blue Note) [04-25] - jazz
  • Jaki Byard: Blues for Smoke (1960, Candid) [01-17] - jazz [**]
  • Ray Charles: Come Live With Me () [08-22] - vocal-jazz
  • Don Cherry: Eternal Rhythm () - jazz
  • Gene Clark & Carla Olson: So Rebellious a Lover (1987, Sunset Blvd)
  • George Colligan: Live at the Jazz Standard (2014, Whirlwind) [05-02] - jazz [**]
  • Chick Corea: Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971, ECM) [04-18] - jazz [*]
  • Cowboy Junkies: More Acoustic Junk (2009, Cooking Vinyl) [09-19]
  • Stanley Cowell: Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Stanley Cowell: Regeneration (1975, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [B]
  • Stanley Cowell/Billy Harper/Reggie Workman/Billy Hart: Such Great Friends (1983, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Marshall Crenshaw: From the Hellhole (Yep Roc) [08-29] [B-]
  • Celia Cruz & Willie Colón: Celia Y Willie (1981, Craft) [06-06] - jazz
  • Curlew: East/West/Also (1990, Cuneiform) [03-28] - jazz
  • Miles Davis: Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings (Craft) - jazz
  • Walter Davis Jr: A Being Such as You (1979, Red) [04-14] - jazz [*]
  • The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe: A Spirit Speaks (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [B]
  • Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms [40th Anniversary] (Mercury) [05-16]
  • Manu Dibango: Dibango 82 (1982, We Want Sounds) [04-04] - African jazz [**]
  • Bizimungu Dieudonne: Inzovu Y'imirindi (Mississippi) [11-14] - African
  • Armen Donelian: Stargazer (Sunnyside) [10-03] - jazz [**]
  • Kenny Dorham: Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) [04-12] - jazz [***]
  • Nick Drake: The Making of Five Leaves Left (Island) [07-25] - folk
  • Drop Nineteens: 1991 (Wharf Cat) [02-07] - shoegaze
  • Dub Syndicate: Out Here on the Perimeter (1989-1996) (On-U Sound) [02-28]
  • Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window 1956-1963 (Sony -4LP/-8CD) [10-31] - singer-songwriter
  • Electric Satie: Gymnopédie '99 (1998, In Sheep's Clothing) [06-27] - electronic [***]
  • Marco Eneidi Quartet: Wheat Fields of Kleyehof (2004, Balance Point Acoustics) [04-02] - jazz [***]
  • Ellery Eskelin: Trio New York About (or On) First Visit (2011-13, Ezz-Thetics) [02-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Bill Evans: Explorations (1961, Craft) - jazz
  • Bill Evans: Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969 (Elemental Music) [04-18] - jazz [**]
  • Shamek Farrah: First Impressions (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Shamek Farrah & Sonelius Smith: The World of the Children (1976, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Ella Fitzgerald: The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967, Verve) [02-25] - vocal jazz [**]
  • John Fogerty: Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years [John's Version] (Concord) [08-22] - rock
  • Patrick Forgas: Cocktail (1977, Cuneiform) [03-28] - jazz-rock
  • Erik Friedlander and Michael Nicolas: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 2 (2019, Tzadik) [03-24] - jazz [**]
  • Fred Frith/Shelley Burgon: The Life and Behavior (2002-05, Relative Pitch) [02-21] - jazz
  • Carlos Garnett: Cosmos Nucleus (1976, Time Traveler) [10-17] - jazz [U]
  • Kenny Garrett: Sounds From the Ancestors (2021, Mack Avenue) [05-01] - jazz [**]
  • Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru: Church of Kidane Mehret (1972, Misissippi) [05-23] - African [B]
  • Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway [Deluxe Edition] (Rhino) [09-26]
  • Dexter Gordon: Landslide (1961-62, Blue Note) [07-04] - jazz [**]
  • Dexter Gordon: Our Man in Paris (1963, Blue Note) [07-03] - jazz [A-]
  • John Gordon: Step by Step (1975, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Ariana Grande: Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead (Republic) [03-28] - dance-pop
  • Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Volume 53 (1976, Grateful Dead -3CD) [01-31] - jam rock
  • Grateful Dead: To Terrapin: Hartford '77 (Grateful Dead) - jam rock
  • Grateful Dead: Blues for Allah [50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] (Rhino) [09-12]
  • Green Cosmos: Abendmusiken (1981-82, Frederiksberg) [01-24] - jazz [**]
  • Vince Guaraldi Trio: Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown (1964, Craft -2CD) [04-11] - jazz [**]
  • Vince Guaraldi: It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown! (Lee Mendelson Film Productions) - jazz
  • Margo Guryan: 28 Demos (Numero Group;) [04-04] - singer-songwriter
  • Woody Guthrie: Woody at Home: Vol 1 + 2 (1951-52, Shamus) [08-14] - folk [*]
  • Mary Halvorson Quartet: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 1 (Tzadik) [01-24] - jazz [A-]
  • Billy Harper: Capra Black (1973, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Nancy Harrow: Wild Women Don't Have the Blues (1960, Candid) - vocal jazz [A-]
  • Roy Haynes: Hip Ensemble (1971, We Want Sounds) [02-28] - jazz
  • Helloween: March of Time (The Best of 40 Years) (Nuclear Blast) [03-28] - metal
  • Joe Henderson: Multiple (1973, Craft) [03-07] - jazz [A-]
  • Joe Henderson: Our Thing to In 'n Out Revisited (1963-64, Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • John Hicks: Hells Bells (1975, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • John Hicks: Steadfast (1975, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Andrew Hill: Grass Roots (1968, Blue Note) [07-04] - jazz [*]
  • Joseph Holbrooke: In Memoriam Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley (2001, Tzadik) - jazz
  • Homeboy Sandman: Rich 2.5 (self-released) [01-24] - hip-hop [***]
  • John Lee Hooker: The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (1973, BMG) [02-28] - blues [A-]
  • William Hooker: A Time Within: Live at the New York Jazz Museum, January 14, 1977 (Valley of Search) [03-28] - jazz [***]
  • Hot Chip: Joy in Repetition (2005-22, Domino) [09-05] - electropop [**]
  • Noah Howard Group: Berlin Concert (1975, Cien Fuegos) [01-17] - jazz
  • Noah Howard Quartet: Schizophrenic Blues (1977, Cien Fuegos) [01-17] - jazz
  • Freddie Hubbard: On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) [04-12] - jazz [**]
  • Freddie Hubbard: Here to Stay (1962, Blue Note) [06-23] - jazz [***]
  • Hüsker Dü: Jan. 30, First Ave Pt. 1 (1985, Numero Group -EP) [07-01] - postpunk [**]
  • Hüsker Dü: Nov. 3, Salt Lake City (Numero Group) [07-29] - postpunk [*]
  • Michael Gregory Jackson: Frequency Equilibrium Koan (1977, Moved-by-Sound) [02-24] - jazz
  • Elmore James: Hits & Rarities (Sunset Blvd.) - blues
  • Keith Jarrett: New Vienna (2016, ECM) [05-30] - jazz [***]
  • Keith Jarrett: At the Deer Head Inn: The Complete Recordings (1992, ECM -4LP) [08-22] - jazz
  • The Jazz Crusaders: Freedom Sound (1961, Blue Note) [07-03] - jazz
  • Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers: African Party [Deluxe Edition] (1967, Innovative Collective/BBE Music) [01-17] - jazz [A-]
  • Lonnie Johnson With Elmer Snowden: Blues & Ballads (1960, Craft) [03-14] - blues [*]
  • Clifford Jordan: Glass Bead Games (1973, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Clifford Jordan Big Band: Play What You Feel (1990, Mapleshade/P-Vine) [03-19] - jazz
  • JPEGMafia: I Lay Down My Life for You (Director's Cut) (self-released) [02-25] - hip-hop
  • Frank Kimbrough: The Call (2010, Sunnyside) [05-02] - jazz [**]
  • Masabumi Kikuchi: Hanamichi: The Final Studio Recording Vol. II (2013, Red Hook) [10-24] - jazz
  • Roland Kirk Quartet: Domino (1963, MIG) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • Charles Kynard: Woga (1972, We Want Sounds) [06-27] - jazz [***]
  • Steve Lacy Three: Live Lugano 1984 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [02-08] - jazz
  • Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd/Kent Carter/Beaver Harris: Trickles (1976, Black Saint) - jazz [B-]
  • Daunik Lazro/Tristan Honsinger/Jean-Jacques Avenel: True & Whole Rhythms au Danois 9 Mai 1982 (Fou) - jazz
  • Furry Lewis: Back on My Feet Again (1961, Bluesville) - blues
  • Corb Lund: Five Dollar Bill (2003, New West) [08-01] - country
  • Corb Lund: Hair in My Eyes Like a Highland Steer (2005, New West) [09-12] - country
  • Jimmy Lyons: Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness) [05-02] - jazz [A-]
  • Edison Machado: Edison Machado & Boa Nova (1978, Far Out) [03-28] - Brazilian jazz
  • Madonna: Veronica Electronica (1998, Warner) [07-25] - remix
  • Kali Malone: The Sacrificial Code (Ideologic Organ) [04-11] - drone
  • Joe Maneri/Tyson Rogers & Jacob Braverman: In the Shadow First Visit (2002, Ezz-Thetics) [01-15] - jazz
  • Bennie Maupin: The Jewel in the Lotus (1974, ECM) [05-16] - jazz [B]
  • Mazinga: Chinese Democracy Manifest: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Rubber Wolf?) [01-12] - punk [***]
  • Rob Mazurek: Alternate Moon Cycles [IA11 Edition] (2012, International Anthem) [03-28] - jazz [**]
  • Nellie McKay: Gee Whiz: The Get Away From Me Demos (Omnivore) [05-09] - singer-songwriter [***]
  • Marian McPartland: At the Peninsula Library 1972 (Liberation Hall) [04-11] - jazz
  • Misha Mengelberg/Sabu Toyozumi: The Analects of Confucius (2000, NoBusiness) [05-02] - jazz [A-]
  • Metronomy: Greatest Hits (Because) [09-05] - indie pop
  • Mac Miller: Balloonerism (REMember Music/Warner) [01-17] - hip-hop [***]
  • Charles Mingus: Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance -2CD) [04-12] - jazz [A-]
  • Charles Mingus: Mingus at Monterey (1964, Candid) [04-12] - jazz
  • Miriodor: Live '97 (Cuneiform) [07-25] - prog rock
  • Joni Mitchell: Joni's Jazz (Rhino -4CD) [09-05] - vocal jazz
  • Hank Mobley: Roll Call (1960, Blue Note) [03-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Thelonious Monk: With Sonny Rollins 1953 to 1957 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
  • Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Himself (1957, Craft) [05-23] - jazz [B]
  • Thelonious Monk: Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside) [12-12] - jazz
  • Wes Montgomery: The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960, Craft) [02-28] - jazz [A-]
  • Wes Montgomery With the Wynton Kelly Trio: Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1966, Resonance) [04-12] - jazz [***]
  • James Moody: 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin) [05-16] - jazz [A-]
  • Moskito: Idolar (2001, Awesome Tapes From Africa) [05-23] - African [***]
  • Mötley Crüe: From the Beginning (BMG) [09-12] - glam metal
  • Gerry Mulligan: Nocturne (1992, Red) [04-12] - jazz [**]
  • Gerry Mulligan & Thelonious Monk: Mulligan Meets Monk (1957, Craft) [04-12] - jazz [+]
  • Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver/Stanley Cowell/Cecil McBee/Jimmy Hopps]: Music Inc. (1970, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver/Stanley Cowell/Cecil McBee/Jimmy Hopps]: Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Kinloch Nelson: Waiting: More Recordings, 1968-1976 (Tompkins Square) [08-22] - folk guitar [**]
  • Jovino Santos Neto Quartet: Mais Que Tudo: Live at Kerry Hall 1995 (Origin) [09-19] - jazz [**]
  • The New York Bass Violin Choir: The New York Bass Violin Choir (Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • David "Fathead" Newman/Ellis Marsalis/Cornell Dupree: Return to the Wide Open Spaces (1990, Amazing/Steady Boy) [04-12] - jazz [**]
  • James Newton Quartet: Live in Willisau Switzierland 1983 (Rhythm 'n' Flow) [11-07] - jazz
  • Alick Nkhata: Radio Lusaka (Mississippi) [08-15] - African [***]
  • Kristen Noguès & John Surman: Diriaou (1998, Souffle Continu) [06-20] - jazz [A-]
  • Red Norvo: World Broadcast Recordings (1944-45, Circle/Jazzology) [ 01-28] - jazz
  • Mark O'Leary Quartet: White Album (1998, TIBProd.) [02-15] - jazz [*]
  • Mark O'Leary Group: A Simple Question (1999, TIBProd.) [01-02] - jazz [**]
  • Mark O'Leary Group: I See Further Than You (2001, TIBProd.) [02-14] - jazz [**]
  • Orbital: Orbital 2 (The Brown Album Expanded) () [05-23] - electronic
  • Outkast: Stankonia [25th Anniversary Edition] (Sony) [10-31] - hip-hop
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010 (Slumberland) [02-07] - jangle pop
  • Billy Parker's Fourth World: Freedom of Speech (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Jeff Parker: The New Breed (2016, International Anthem) [06-27] - jazz [B]
  • Joe Pass: Virtuoso (1973, Craft) [03-14] - jazz [[**]]
  • Pavement: Pavements [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] ()
  • Cecil Payne: Zodiac (1972, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • PAZ: Variation and Creation: The Story of PAZ (Jazz in Britain -3CD) - jazz
  • Pellegrini Quartet: Luigi Nono: Fragmente - Stille, an Diotima/Ludwig van Beethoven: Streichquartett a-moll op. 132 (1995, Ezz-Thetics) [03-01] - classical
  • Art Pepper: Geneva 1980 (Omnivore) [03-14] - jazz [***]
  • Art Pepper: An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1980, Elemental Music) [05-09] - jazz [***]
  • The Piano Choir: Handscapes (1972, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [B]
  • The Piano Choir: Handscapes 2 (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • Jeannie Piersol: The Nest (High Moon) [01-24] - folk rock
  • Pink Floyd: Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII (1972, Columbia) [05-02] - prog rock [*]
  • Grace Potter: Medicine (2008, Hollywood) [05-30] - country [***]
  • John Prine: Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings [Deluxe Edition] (1995, Oh Boy) [09-12] - singer-songwriter
  • Ike Quebec: The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions (1959-62, Blue Note, 2CD) [10-10] - jazz
  • Radiohead: Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) (XL) [08-13] - art rock
  • Enrico Rava: Il Giro Del Giorno in Mondi 80 (1972, Eargong) [02-21] - jazz [**]
  • Eli "Paperboy" Reed: Sings "Walkin' and Talkin'" and Other Smash Hits [20th Anniversary Edition] (2005, Yep Roc) [06-06] - blues [**]
  • The Reference Group: File Under Unpopular (2007-08, Cuneiform) [03-28] - rock
  • Terry Riley: The Columbia Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) [08-22] - minimalism
  • Max Roach: Deeds, Not Words (1958, Craft) - jazz
  • Max Roach: We Insist: Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (1960, Vinyl Me Please) - jazz [A-]
  • Charlie Rouse: Two Is One (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [*]
  • The Charlie Rouse Band: Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition (Resonance) [09-19] - jazz [*]
  • Rush: Rush 50 () [03-21] - prog rock
  • Pharaoh Sanders: Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (1973, Strata East/Mack Avenue) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Pharoah Sanders: The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings (1980-87, Mosaic -7CD) [07-16] - jazz
  • Manfred Schoof Ochestra: European Echoes (1969, FMP) [02-28] - jazz
  • Irène Schweizer/Rüdiger Carl/Johnny Dyani/Han Bennink: Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) [05-24] - jazz [A-]
  • Toshiyuki Sekine Trio: Strode Rode (1978, Craftman) [04-23] - jazz
  • Serengeti: Mixtape 2 (self-released) [03-07] - hip-hop [*]
  • The Sex Pistols: Live in the U.S.A. South East Music Hall, Atlanta, January 5th, 1978 (UME)
  • Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble: The Complete Live at Antibes (1970, BYG/Actuel) [04-12] - jazz
  • Wayne Shorter: Introducing Wayne Shorter (1960, Craft) [08-29] - jazz [A-]
  • Horace Silver: Silver in Seatte: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) [10-24] - jazz
  • Frank Sinatra: In the Wee Small Hours (1955, Blue Note Tone Poet) [11-14] - vocal jazz
  • Slipknot: Slipknot [25th Anniversary Edition] (Roadrunner) [09-05] - nu metal
  • Sloth Racket: Ten Years of Live Sloths (2015-24, Luminous Label) [02-03] - jazz
  • Sly & the Family Stone: Sly Lives! (Aka the Burden of Black Genius) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (1967-73, Sony/Legacy) [02-13] - soul [**]
  • Sly & the Family Stone: The First Family: Live at the Winchester Cathedral 1967 (High Moon) [04-12] - soul [B]
  • Small Faces: Greatest Hits: The Immediate Years (Charly) [04-26] - rock
  • Snakeoil [Tim Berne]: Snakeoil OK (2013, Screwgun) [03-07] - jazz
  • Soft Machine: Floating World Live [Remastered] (1975, MoonJune) [01-08] - jazz
  • Soft Machine: Drop [Remastered] (1971, MoonJune) [01-08] - jazz
  • Soft Works: Abracadabra (2002, MoonJune) [06-13] - jazz [***]
  • Sophie: Sophie (Numbers/MSMSMSM) [06-18] - bubblegum bass
  • Spectacular Diagnostics: Raw Game [Ten Year Edition] (2015, Vinyl Digital) [02-00] - hip-hop [***]
  • Bruce Springsteen: Tracks II: The Lost Albums (Sony) [06-27]
  • Larry Stabbins/Keith Tippett/Louis Moholo-Moholo: Live in Foggia (1985, Ogun) [07-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Cat Stevens: Cat on the Road to Findout (UMe) [09-05]
  • Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition] (Asthmatic Kitty) [05-30] - singer-songwriter
  • Louis Stewart: I Thought About You (1977, Livia) [05-29] - jazz [**]
  • Studio: West Coast (2006, Ghostly International) [01-24] - electronic [A-]
  • Sun Ra: Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut) [04-16] - jazz [***]
  • Sun Ra: Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79 (Modern Marmonic) [03-14] - jazz [**]
  • Sun Ra: Stray Voltage (1970s-80s, Modern Harmonic) [06-27] - jazz [**]
  • Sun Ra: On Jupiter (1979, Saturn/Strut) [06-13] - jazz [**]
  • John Surman: Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform) [01-31] - jazz [***]
  • Atef Swaitat: Palestinian Bedouin Psychedelic Dabka Archive (Majazz Project/Palestinian Sound Archive) [07-20] - Arabic [***]
  • Masayuki Takayanagi: Holy Holy (1985, Jinya Disc) [06-18] - jazz
  • Masayuki Takayanagi: Stardust (1979, Jinya Disc) [06-18] - jazz
  • Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food [Super Deluxe Edition] (Rhino) [07-25] - new wave
  • Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: Live at Widney High December 26th, 1971 (The Village) [05-09] - jazz [A-]
  • Cecil Taylor Unit: Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [02-27] - jazz
  • Cecil Taylor Unit: Live at Fat Tuesday's February 10, 1980 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) [02-02] - jazz
  • Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley: Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) [07-11] - jazz [A-]
  • John Taylor: Tramanto (2002, ECM) [09-19] - jazz [**]
  • Tedeschi Trucks Band and Leon Russell: Present Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited: Live at Lockn' (2015, Fantasy) [09-12]
  • Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia: Live at Leverkusen 1994 (Repertoire) - jazz
  • Clifford Thornton: Ketchaoua (1969, BYG Actuel) [02-21] - jazz [**]
  • Steve Tintweiss and the Purple Why: Live in Tompkins Square Park 1967 (Inky Dot Media) [08-07] - jazz [**]
  • To Live and Shave in L.A.: The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg (1995-2000, Palilia) [04-10] - jazz
  • Masahiko Togashi: Session in Paris Vol. 1: Song of Soil (1979, We Want Sounds) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Masahiko Togashi: Session in Paris Vol. 2: Colour of Dream (1979, We Want Sounds) [02-28] - jazz [**]
  • Charles Tolliver With Gary Bartz/Herbie Hancock/Ron Carter/Joe Chambers: Right Now . . . and Then (1968, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Charles Tolliver's Music Inc: Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival (1972, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Charles Tolliver Music Inc & Orchestra: Impact (1975, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Charles Tolliver Music Inc: Compassion (1977, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [A-]
  • Charles Tolliver: Live in Berlin: At the Quasimodo (1988, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Trigger: John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 3 (2019, Tzadik) [03-24] - jazz [*]
  • Ryan Truesdell: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (2014, Outside In Music) [05-30] - jazz [A-]
  • François Tusques/Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra: Vol. 4: Jo Maka (1977, Souffle Continu) [04-04] - jazz [A-]
  • Harold Vick: Don't Look Back (1974, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [**]
  • Bobby Wellins/Kenny Wheeler Quintet: The Endangered Species (1982, Jazz in Britain -3CD) [06-02] - jazz
  • Bugge Wesseltoft: It's Still Snowing on My Piano (1997, ACT Music) [10-31] - jazz
  • Kenny Wheeler: The Kenny Wheeler Big Band & Friends, Vol. 2 (1973-74, British Progressive Jazz) [05-02] - jazz
  • Albert White: The Definitive Albert White (Music Maker) [02-01] - blues [*]
  • Wilco: A Ghost Is Born [Expanded Edition] (Nonesuch) [02-07] - alt-rock
  • Jack Wilkins: Opal (1983, CTI/King Japan) [03-12] - jazz
  • X Ambassadors: VHS(X) (Nyle) [08-29]
  • Yo La Tengo: Old Joy (2006 Mississippi -EP) [02-28] - alt/indie [*]
  • Hiroshi Yoshimura: Flora (1987, Temporal Drift) [03-20] - ambient [***]
  • Neil Young: Oceanside Countryside (1977, Reprise) [03-07] - folk rock [***]
  • Frank Zappa: Cheaper Than Cheep (1974, Zappa/UMe) [03-28]
  • African Jazz Invites O.K. Jazz (1961-70, Planet Ilunga) [05-02] - African [***]
  • Barnyard Beehive (Numero Group) [02-14] - country pop
  • C92 (Cherry Red) [01-24]
  • Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions (1953-58, Mosaic -6CD) - jazz
  • Death Is Not the End: London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 1 (Death Is Not the End) [10-31]
  • Death Is Not the End: London Pirate Radio Adverts 1984-1993, Vol. 2 (Death Is Not the End) [10-31]
  • Democracy Forward (Bitter Southerner)
  • Disco Discharge Presents More Sin: Box of Sin 2 (Demon Music Group/Edsel) [02-28]
  • Edna Martinez Presents Picó: Sound System Culture From the Colombian Caribbean (1950s-70s, Strut) [06-20] - Latin [A-]
  • Electric Junk: Deutsche Rock, Psych and Kosmische 1970-1978 () [04-18]
  • Get Ready for the Countdown: Mod, Brit Soul, R&B & Freakbeat Nuggets () [04-18]
  • Going Out of My Head: Adventures on the Indie Dancefloor 1995-1999 (Cherry Red) [04-25]
  • Imaginational Anthem Vol. XIV: Ireland (Tompkins Square) [10-25] - Irish
  • Krautrock Eruption: An Introduction to German Electronic Music 1970-1980 (Bureau B) [03-21] - krautrock [B]
  • Middle Earth: The Soundtrack of London's Legendary Psychedelic Club 1967-1969 () [03-21]
  • Motor City Is Burning: A Michigan Anthology 1965-1972 () [03-21]
  • Music Is a Message From Space (Corbett vs. Dempsey) [03-28] - jazz [*]
  • The Original Sound of Mali 2 (Mr Bongo) - African
  • A New Awakening: Adventures in British Jazz 1966-1971 (Strawberry -3CD) [02-21] - jazz
  • Planet Mu 30 (Planet Mu) [05-09] - footwork
  • Prisoners' Day Compilation Vol. 1 (Majazz Project/Palestinian Sound Archive) [04-17] - Arabic
  • Roots Rocking Zimbabwe: The Modern Sound of Harare Townships 1975-1980 (Analog Africa) [05-02] - African [***]
  • Salsa de la Bahia Vol. 3: A Colection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz: Renegade Queens (1991-2025, Patois, 2CD) [03-31] - Latin jazz [*]
  • Scarborough Jazz Festival Present: 2024 Live Festival Compilation (self-released) - jazz
  • Secret Superstar Sounds: Scraping Bubblegum Off My Soul 1977-80: Punk /Powerpop/New Wave/DIY (Soul Jazz)
  • Sinners [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Masterworks) [04-18] - blues
  • Spiritual Jazz 17: Saba/MPS (Jazzman) - jazz
  • Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind the Iron Curtain: Esoteric, Modal, and Progressive Jazz From Central and Eastern Europe (1962-1988) (Jazzman) [06-06] - jazz
  • Spring Revisited (Acid Jazz) [10-24]
  • Strata-East: The Legacy Begins (1968-75, Strata-East) [04-25] - jazz [***]
  • Sweet Rebels: The Golden Era of Algerian Pop-Raï: The Ecstatic Electro Sound of Original Raï Cassettes 1986-1991 (We Want Sounds) [03-25] - rai [***]
  • Toivo Tulev: Dawn, Almost Dawn (Navrona) [03-21] - classical
  • Treasures Untold: A Modern 78 RPM Reader (Tompkins Square) [04-12]
  • A Tribute to the King of Zydeco (Valcourt) [06-27] - zydeco
  • Zulu Guitar Blues: Cowboys, Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950-1965 (Matsuli Music) [05-16] - African [**]

Priority Counts

  • Priority 0: 0
  • Priority 1: 1789
  • Priority 2: 171
  • Priority 3: 23
  • Priority 4: 763
  • Priority 5: 255

Total: 3001